Pastoral Resources

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?