Pastoral Resources

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.