Pastoral Resources

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.