Pastoral Resources

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

The singing was something I got from my father.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.