Pastoral Resources

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you."

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

You don't need a love scene to show love.

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.