Pastoral Resources

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.