Challenges Quote by Francis Arinze

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

— William P. Leahy

“When pursued it becomes clear that this separation between one's self and the Church usually stems from deep unresolved pain or dissatisfaction rooted in…

— Janet O. Hagberg

The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and…

— Steve Coogan

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

— Blase J. Cupich

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that…

— Philip Yancey

The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of…

— Pope John Paul II

“The Church's objectivity is not subjectivized by the affirmation that the only framework in which the Church can remain the Church of the Lord…

— G C Berkouwer

“The Church pleaseth it selfe too much which scorns and disdaines other Churches, as unworthy of her Communion, for some weakness in their understanding,…

— John Davenant

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“It’s not always a bad thing to struggle. In fact, if you want to find the church alive, you look at places of struggle.…

— Shane Claiborne