Pastoral Resources

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I grew up listening to old soul.