Pastoral Resources

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.