Pastoral Resources

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.