Causes Quote by David Bryant

“Community is essential, but the fundamental calling of the church is global.”

— Calvin Miller

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to…

— Lesslie Newbigin

“the church was an international institution long before globalization.”

— Shane Claiborne

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

— John Howard Yoder

“We must be global Christians with a global vision because we serve a global God.”

— John Stott

The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church.

— Sylvain Of Athos

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the…

— Charles Spurgeon

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

— David James Duncan