Care Quote by Larry Graham

Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations.

— Larry Graham

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

— Larry Graham

“The idea that God “always wills healing” has been a destructive distortion in the Christian community. The pastoral problems emanating from this are enormous.”

— R.C. Sproul

Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“In fact, God may be working in and through their circumstances, and we can't know completely how God is working through any situation during…

— Amy Fenton Lee

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us…

— Jack Kornfield

“God gave humanity many healing tools, and they exist far beyond circumstances. Some of them are traditionally spiritual: prayer, communion, sanctuary, Scripture. The sacraments…

— Jen Hatmaker

Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

— C. J. Mahaney

“It is best to think of a pastoral transition as a blended family in which former effective ministries are adopted by the new pastor…

— Carolyn Weese

People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes…

— Blase J. Cupich

“A pastoral presence means walking with the People of God, walking in front of them, showing them the way, showing them the path; walking…

— Pope Francis

Many of those whose task it is to broker the truth of God to the people of God in the churches have now redefined…

— David F. Wells