Pastoral Resources

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.