Pastoral Resources

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents.

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

But human nature is not to be totally changed even by such a force as the Reformation.