Pastoral Resources

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Normality is death.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.