Pastoral Resources

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network.

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.