Pastoral Resources

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.