Pastoral Resources

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.