Pastoral Resources

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.