Pastoral Resources

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.