Pastoral Resources

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.