Pastoral Resources

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.