Pastoral Resources

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.