Pastoral Resources

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.