Pastoral Resources

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.