Pastoral Resources

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.