Pastoral Resources

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.