Pastoral Resources

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Your behavior is based on your beliefs, and what you do and say, over and over again, helps develop your habits.

Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

We say the name of God, but that is only habit.