Pastoral Resources

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

Weaklings must lie.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.