Pastoral Resources

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

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.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

Running is my church.

There is no salvation outside the church.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.