Pastoral Resources

The present will not long endure.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.