Pastoral Resources

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

First thoughts are not always the best.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.