Quotes of: Roman-catholic-church Keyword

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

Francis Chan

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those th...

Dallas Willard

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Activist Faith: From Him and For Him

You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church

Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.

It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Jesus with Dirty Feet: A Down-To-Earth Look at Christianity for the Curious and Skeptical

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

The Rocket Garden

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

The Secret Life of Bees

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.

Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet.

Master of Stupidity

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

Look into the stillness

At church, during communion, they give out free wine. Whoa! Talk about a great place to drink and meet women.

Sleepwalking is restercise

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

A Time of Change

... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...

Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate

Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw - one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible and the historical doctrine of the Church.

Quixotic

He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

The Raven Boys

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers

The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience