Pastoral Resources

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

The past has to inform the present.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.