Pastoral Resources

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.