Pastoral Resources

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.