Pastoral Resources

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.