Pastoral Resources

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.