Laity Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

All professions are conspiracies against the laity. — George Bernard Shaw
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
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
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy. — Dorothy Day
One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism. — Billy Graham
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
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth
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
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
The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society. — Pope Francis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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