Laity Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
— George Bernard Shaw
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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was…
— Gautama Buddha
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just…
— John Henry Newman
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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
— Dorothy Day
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One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.
— Billy Graham
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Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants,…
— John Selden
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The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
— Karl Barth
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There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often…
— Pope Francis
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A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as…
— Frank Bartleman
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The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.
— Pope Francis
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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been…
— James Madison
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through…
— Charles Dickens
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The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their…
— Franklin Littell
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The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a…
— John Wycliffe
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Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity…
— David Augsburger
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Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary…
— Roland Allen
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During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride…
— James Madison
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While I am sowing in one place, they ravage the field I have just left. I cannot be everywhere. If Christians had the Scriptures in…
— William Tyndale
Who Wrote These Laity Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Laity Quotes as follows: