The Church is full of Hypocrites!” Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where...

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Dear God, save us from The Church!

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

Are we letting the world influence the church more than the church is affecting those in the world?

When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the...

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some of them were altar boys, and they were abused before or after mass....

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(August 9, 1955)

You must mind and not lower the Church in people’s eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Votre adoration est proportionnelle à votre communion avec Dieu et comment vous êtes libre

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

God makes his gospel attractive through people…that is the point of the gospel; it is trans-formative in nature.

What’s to rationalize? You mean you shouldn’t pray if you haven’t got your s–t together? This is another fairly common misconception of faith, which is that people who go to church, or people who pray,...

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.

Authentic leaders are often accused of being “controlling” by those who idly sit by and do nothing

The liturgy is the place where we wait for Jesus to show up. We don’t have to do much. The liturgy is not an act of will. It is not a series of activities designed...

Sir, I cannot sing. I have no formal training. I do not read music. And I know this is a church – but I play a mean harmonica.

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to...

As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in...

Everybody gets to play.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Whenever a group of people who are designed to primarily unite around one thing try to unite around something else, the result is devastating for all.

Why at the beginning of things is there always light? Dorrigo Evans’ earliest memories were of sun flooding a church hall in which he sat with his mother and grandmother. A wooden church hall. Blinding...

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present...

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive...

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had...

What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful and appealing philosophy is also true for Christians in a postmodern context. Arguments that deconstruct the regimes of truth at work...

To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, “I need God and His family.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and...

One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

Vatican II declares the Church… as necessary for salvation.

Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn about kindness; come back to become a kind person! If things go like that, you will be...

If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

You can’t have a church town without belief and you can’t have belief without intolerance.

Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him

Competition in spiritual matters brings confusion.

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can be found on any street corner or at the local mall. You may...

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

If your church is not going to support the committed same-sex relationships of LGBT congregants, be honest about that. Bait-and-switch is deceptively un-Christ-like and serves to push gay and transgender believers farther away each time...

It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But...

the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus’ will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church there is no opposition: despite the sins of...

The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.

I am the equipper, not the doer.” If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water access for entire countries or fighting to end the AIDS pandemic? Imagine what integrity that would give to the good...