Nonconformist Church Quotes & Sayings

Her way of being religious was as nonconformist as her nonreligious life had been. She was skeptical about many of the practices of the institutional church. She preferred to trust in the personal relationship she had grown to experience with God. This relationship transformed her ability to be in community and enabled her to see the essence of those around her: "The longer I live, the more I see God at work in people who don't have the slightest interest in religion and never read the Bible and wouldn't know what to do if they were persuaded to go inside a church."

For Dorothy [Day], the bread broken at Mass wasn't any more holy than the bread broken at shelters and soup kitchens. Church didn't happen in a building. It happened in the way people related to each other. Christ wasn't any more present in the liturgy than he was when on person listened with compassion to the pain of another. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent. — D.H. Lawrence

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive — Jon Bernthal

When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with. — Frank Bartleman

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth. — Daniel P. Friedman

Toronto will be the best Pan American Games ever. As PASO's President, I have said several times that I want to end my leading period with a legacy of the best Games ever; and I am sure we will do it in Toronto. — Mario Vazquez