Behavior Quote by Henri Nouwen

“The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts…

— Bertrand Russell

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and…

— Gene Robinson

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out…

— Lesslie Newbigin

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to…

— Tullian Tchividjian

The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must…

— Pope Francis

“People don’t mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.”

— John Scalzi

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor,…

— Philip Pullman

If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it…

— John G. Lake

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

— Peter Rollins