Pastoral Resources

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.