Pastoral Resources

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.