Pastoral Resources

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.