598 quotes found
“Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a co...”
“Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour ...”
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after ce...”
“Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.”
“The Gospel is the good news, not the grouse news. Preaching is not beating, its informing in a christlike way.”
“The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.”
“The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.”
“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?”
“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.”
“The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. After all, Pilate permitted the killing of Jesus in order to secure both peace and ...”
“The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt itotherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS”
“On Marie's eight visit, Raymond met her at the airport with a skinny woman he said was his wife. She had dark-blond hair and one of those unset permanents, all corkscrews. Marie looked at her, and ...”
“A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continui...”
“Every Sunday behind bibles, virgins,soldiers tight against me, longing,and my pelvis rubbing gods'to the big black woman voices.Soldiers tight against me, longing,all that rising, sitting, kneeling...”
“Perhaps, too, in the "shift-the-blame" society we live in, we have forgotten how to weep over our sins. David, the psalm writer, said, "When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning ...”
“The church is Gods elect that God wants to raise in the country to give hope to everyone”
“I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.”
“The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs.”
“The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.”
“If you are established in the church and focused on Jesus, then you are still among the living”
