Pastoral Resources

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.