Christian Community Quotes

• Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Judging, Community

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• Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Flames, Community

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• Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Christian, Law

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• Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

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• Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

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• Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Strong, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fellowship, Members

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Community

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• The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

  John Stott

  Christian, Focus, Community

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

  Gordon Fee

  Christian, Live Life, Community

  Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.81, Baker Academic

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Hate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Community, Church

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• Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Listening, Ministry

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press

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• I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

  Jeremy Lin

  Christian, School, Sunday

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.24, SCM Press

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• The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Community, Purity

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• The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Community, Important

  "The Fish Gate" sermon, September 02, 2007.

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• The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.

  John Stott

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Brother, Hate, Matter

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

  Jean Vanier

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.144, Paulist Press

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• Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Dream, Broken

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• Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be ever more open to listening and accepting your Word. May they draw from the Eucharist a renewed commitment to spreading in society, by the proclamation of your Gospel, the signs and deeds of an attentive and active charity

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Jesus, Commitment

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• The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Community, Church

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2013). “Letters to London: Bonhoeffer’s previously unpublished correspondence with Ernst Cromwell, 1935-36”, p.93, SPCK

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• Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

  "Life Togehter".

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• I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Letting Go, Struggle

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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