Pastoral Resources

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women - especially Christian women - need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography.

So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner.

When I became a Christian my confidence grew.

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.