Pastoral Resources

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.