Pastoral Resources

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.