Pastoral Resources

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.

Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.