If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
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.
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.
That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.
I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
