Pastoral Resources

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.