Pastoral Resources

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

THIS is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.