Pastoral Resources

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.