Pastoral Resources

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.