Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

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

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.