Pastoral Resources

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.