Pastoral Resources

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Seek truth from facts.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.