Pastoral Resources

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and said, 'don't come in here Bryan, you don't need to be seeing this!' and he said, 'ooh, you need some white wine.' He handed me a glass of wine.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.