Pastoral Resources

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.