Pastoral Resources

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.