Pastoral Resources

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.

Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.