Pastoral Resources

I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol... But we need the tax money.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.