I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
I don't care what the world says. My Bible says you can't live a continuous lifestyle of sin and be a Christian.
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
There is absolutely no reward on earth for being a Christian. You get it only on payday in Heaven, not while you are still working for Jesus on earth.
My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
