Afresh Church Quotes & Sayings

My father had once told me the story of how, when he was in the work camp, a truckload of giant logs was brought in to be chopped. He was on ax duty with a gang of twelve. It was a dreadfully hot summer and each swing of the blade was torture. He hacked at a log and there was the unmistakable sound of metal hitting metal. He bent down and found a mushroom-shaped chunk of lead embedded in the trunk. A bullet. He counted the rings from the perimeter to the bullet and found they matched his age exactly.

We never escape ourselves, he said to me years later. — Colum McCann

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone. — Conrad Black

When I'm finally worn out, I lay there quietly, taking in the beauty that is this man.
My Nix.
Just as I am his Emily. — Sawyer Bennett

In this framework, although church discipline is being thought through afresh by many Christian groups,44 one of the areas where more thought is still needed is the manner in which churches that draw lines in the moral arenas - however graciously, humbly, gently, sometimes by degrees, but also firmly - are not only taking steps to align themselves with Scripture (and with the main strands of Christian heritage, for that matter), but are taking on the culture. Such steps become not only a matter of nurturing and protecting the faithful, but of showing a pluralistic world what Christian living looks like. This will alienate some; under God's good hand, it will draw others, not least because the freedoms promised by pluralism are tearing society apart. In any case, we have little choice: elementary faithfulness demands it. — D. A. Carson

I'm not particularly prolific. — Martin Gore

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it. — Ray Charles

And considering I haven't showered in over a week, you really don't smell much worse than I do; maybe we'll cancel each other out. — Isaac Marion