Pastoral Resources

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.