Pastoral Resources

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

I was always influenced by language.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.