Pastoral Resources

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.