Pastoral Resources

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.