Building Quote by Rachel Held Evans

... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.

— Rigoberta Menchu

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and…

— Francis Chan

I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off…

— Pope Francis

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that…

— Anonymous

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

— Chief Joseph

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

In order to impact our society, we need to first model unity in the church.

— Tony Evans

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as…

— Shane Claiborne

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that…

— Pope Francis

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit…

— John C. Maxwell

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

— Pope Francis

To me the church's problem would be a hundred times worse if you felt everyone has written the church off, they don't want to…

— Chris Lowney