Pastoral Resources

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.