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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.