Pastoral Resources

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

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.

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.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.