Pastoral Resources

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.