Pastoral Resources

I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.