Pastoral Resources

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.