Pastoring Is An Essential Service Quotes & Sayings

Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease when I enter a house in which there are no ash trays. — Lin Yutang

I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.' — Shaquille O'Neal

She grasped the crook and flail with cool hands and sank gracefully to her knees. The High Priest of Amun placed a piece of flatbread imprinted with an ankh, the symbol of everlasting life, upon her tongue. It was gritty, the dough having been sprinkled with sand blessed by all the High Priests before it was baked that morning. — Stephanie Thornton

I will, I do, Amen, Here Here, Let's
eat, drink and be merry. Marriage is
the public spectacle of private
parts:
cheque-books and genitals, house-wares, fainthearts,
all doubts becalmed by kissing
aunt, a priest's
safe homily, those tinkling glasses
tightening those ties that truly bind
us together forever, dressed to the nines.

Darling, I reckon maybe thirty years,
given our ages and expectancies.
Barring the tragic or untimely, say,
ten thousand mornings, ten thousand evenings,
please God, ten thousand moistened nights like this,
when, mindless of these vows, our opposites,
nonetheless, attract. Thus, love's subtactraction:
the timeless from the ordinary times --
nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine. — Thomas Lynch

He who has nothing - it has been said many times - has nothing to lose but his chains. — Pablo Neruda

Mowrer and his family made it safely to Tokyo. His wife, Lillian, recalled her great sorrow at having to leave Berlin. "Nowhere have I had such lovely friends as in Germany," she wrote. "Looking back on it all is like seeing someone you love go mad - and do horrible things. — Erik Larson

Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? — Victor Hugo

School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage. — Paul Vitz

If he stayed close enough to Maggie for long enough, the dog might wind up with more education than me. Then there'd be no talking to him. — Jim Butcher

You can not even roughly guess where you can reach in life if you pursue the path of self-education. — Deepak Burfiwala

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy. — Arthur C. Clarke

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it. — Woody Allen

The top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable. — Katherine Dunn