Pastoral Resources

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.