#church

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#humor #xavier-woods #humor

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#church #correcting #forward #friends #giant

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#church #evangelists #extended #extended family #family

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial. ↗

— Mark Galli

#church #denial #praise-and-worship #death

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#community #fear #intimacy #relationship #freedom

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God’s promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin’s consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christian-living #church #god #human-rights #sin

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you. ↗

— George Carlin

#church #donation #george-carlin #money #money

The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is. ↗

— Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman

#church #dave-coleman #wayne-jacobsen #change

Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love. ↗

— David Kinnaman

#love #love

The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly. ↗

— David Holdsworth

#compassion #doctrine #god-s-love #harvest #joy