Pastoral Resources

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.