Pastoral Resources

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

Words make love with one another.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Who has words at the right moment?

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.