Pastoral Resources

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.