“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.” LooksProblemPastDesireChurchMemoriesBuildingGoes OnWeightUrgentCrushedPast MemoriesBuilding Something Author:Pope Francis
“A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.” KnowsMenLooksMayChristianDifferencesChurchLordAliveSightChristian InspirationalGod KnowsDead ManLord GodMorticians Author:Vance Havner
“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.” WellsLooksMayLittlesEnoughDiesEvilChurchNumbersWorshipSickAdversityTrialsWeatherChiefsHypocrisySubtleInwardRequestMischiefMaladyGood Weather Author:Joseph Hall
“The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!” WorldLooksSaidChurchViewsChristianityHistoryThey SaidWorldviewViewpoints Author:Carl F. H. Henry
“The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope.” LooksForceChurchStruggleBrotherReturnBearsWeaknessMercyJoyfulNew LifeBrothers And SistersBasicsLooking To The Future Author:Pope Francis
“I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.” PeopleFeelsLooksHas BeensWholeKidsWantedMotherChurchRoomsSpecialConcernWhole LifeFlightPriestsThrowingEntertainingMinistryFeel BetterStairsLiving RoomMaking People Happy Author:Jim Carrey