An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else.
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'' What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.
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Brennan Manning
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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Anne Lamott
It's time we capture our imaginations for Christ
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Peter E. Gillquist
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
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Sue Monk Kidd
The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.
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Frank D. Gilroy
More Quotes By Tullian Tchividjian
The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.
The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify...
The great hope we find in the Christian faith is that God is not us.
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
