Pastoral Resources

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.