Pastoral Resources

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

Today, Web services is really about developing for the server. What it means to developers is any set of systems services that you make a Web service you to access by any kind of device with a highly interactive client, not just a browser.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.