Pastoral Resources

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

And the spirit of Superman is great to have around.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.