Challenges Quote by Pope Francis

The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk…

— John Howard Yoder

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The Catholic Church built and ran hospitals, schools, and centres for the poor and unemployed generations before the secular state became involved, and even…

— Michael Coren

“To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when a hospital…

— Joseph Lewis

“For many churches, as they seek to create comfortable environments in the form of worship services or small groups, have lost their ability to…

— Mike Breen

“Sometimes we see problems in our church. Such occasions are not opportunities to criticize or to leave, but to let Christ use our lives…

— Richard Blackaby

The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to…

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

— Charles Spurgeon

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

— Pope Francis

“become part of culture, proclaim the Good News, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture—they are missional…

— Ed Stetzer

“It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to…

— Gary Smith