Pastoral Resources

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.