Pastoral Resources

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

You change your life by changing your heart.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.