"The child has young blood in her veins and a good roof over her head, and let me further tell the pastor, that I know where wood is to be found, and when is the proper time to fetch it; the pastor can go and look inside my wood-shed; the fire is never out in my hut the whole winter through. As to going to live below that is far from my thoughts; the people despise me and I them; it is therefore best for all of us that we live apart."英文原著 · 《Heidi》
The convent did not like the pastor. A few monks whom Patience had unmasked hated Patience. Hence, both pastor and pupil were persecuted. The ignorant monks did not scruple to accuse the cure to his bishop of devoting himself to the occult sciences in concert with the magician Patience. A sort of religious war broke out in the village and neighbourhood. All who were not for the convent were for the cure, and /vice versa/. Patience scorned to take part in this struggle. One morning he went to see his friend, with tears in his eyes, and said to him:英文原著 · 《Mauprat》
An ivy-mantled cottage smiled, Deep-wooded near a streamlet's side, Where dwelt the village-pastor's child, In all her maiden bloom and pride. Proud suitors paid their court and duty To this romantic sylvan beauty: Yet none of all the swains who sought her, Was worthy of the pastor's daughter.英文原著 · 《Poems》
A village pastor was examining his parishioners in their catechism. The first question in the Heidelberg catechism is this: "What is thy only consolation in life and in death?" A young girl, to whom the pastor put this question, laughed, and would not answer. The priest insisted. "Well, then," said she at length, "if I must tell you, it is the young shoemaker who lives in the Rue Agneaux."英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and the Regency》
I, Magister Veit Dieterich, Minister at Nuernberg, subscribe. I, Erhard Schnepf, Preacher at Stuttgart, subscribe. Conrad Oettinger, Preacher of Duke Ulrich at Pforzheim. Simon Schneeweiss, Pastor of the Church at Crailsheim. I, John Schlagenhaufen, Pastor of the Church at Koethen, subscribe. The Reverend Magister George Helt of Forchheim. The Reverend Magister Adam of Fulda, Preacher in Hesse. The Reverend Magister Anthony Corvinus, Preacher in Hesse.英文原著 · 《The Smalcald Articles》
And my pastor called us out of the pews and down to the altar and my pastor called us out of the pews and down to the altar演讲 · 《The gospel of doubt ~ Casey Gerald》