Pastoral Resources

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.