Pastoral Resources

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

I am a Christian.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?