Quotes About Community

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ.

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.

The church is God's vineyard.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

The only thing God is building in this world is his church.

Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.

Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

If you reach the people nobody wants, God will give you the people everybody wants.

God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do.