Pastoral Resources

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things.

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.