Pastoral Resources

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.