Pastoral Resources

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.