Pastoral Resources

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.