Pastoral Resources

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.