Faith Community Quotes

• As believers, we are running the race together. We are connected by our faith in God and our love for the world that He sent Christ to save. So if one gets weak, we carry them. We aren't called to stop moving forward. We aren't called to criticize each other. No, we are called to encourage each other, to reach down and carry each other, and to keep moving.

  Jesse Duplantis

  Running, Moving, Race

  FaceBook post by Jesse Duplantis Ministries from May 24, 2015

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• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Failure, Rights

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

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• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Distance, Ignorance

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.224, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I absolutely think that when we talk about family, faith, community, I think it's important for Democrats to be able to connect with folks where they live.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Community, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual distinction in our time of being the only institutions left that can posit some goal other than accumulation for human existence. I think that's enormously important because it is that drive for consumption more than anything else that fuels the environmental devastation around us.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Goal, Community

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• ...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to connect their faith to sustainable development and act accordingly, with the support of their institutions, the gains could be world-changing

  Ian Christie

  Future, Community, Support

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• When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Community, Coward

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.88, Zondervan

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• We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Community, Police

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Believe, Creating

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• the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Sex, Men

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• For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor substitute for joining the faith community in person. Surely, the church experience is about more than a message. We are always better off together than flying solo. Godcasting is a supplement, not a substitute for weekly worship.

  Craig Detweiler

  People, Community, Flying

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• Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Community, Bad Marriage, Courses

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• There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities.

  Reza Aslan

  People, Community, Groups

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• The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Community, Done, Royal

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Community, World, Civilized Society

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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Men, Community, Citizens

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