Pastoral Resources

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.