Pastoral Resources

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.