Pastoral Resources

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854.

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.