Pastoral Resources

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.