Pastoral Resources

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!