Parachurch Quotes & Sayings

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C.S. Lewis

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger. — Theodore Roosevelt

In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy. — Debasish Mridha

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm ... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art. — Georges Braque

When you sit down around the table, it's a great time to catch up and share and talk about the day, and I think that can keep families connected and together. — Kimberly Schlapman

I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want," he said, and then he paused and thought. "I want everything. — Neil Gaiman

We're all adolescents now," writes Thomas Bergler. "When are we going to grow up?"17 Bergler explains that churches and parachurch organizations first began to provide youth-oriented programs - mainly to help at-risk kids in the cities (e.g., the YMCA). Then the "teenager" was invented as a unique demographic in society. As a result, the youth group was created, offering adolescent-friendly versions of church. "In the second stage, a new adulthood emerged that looked a lot like the old adolescence. Fewer and fewer people outgrew the adolescent Christian spiritualities they had learned in youth groups; instead, churches began to cater to them." Eventually, churches became them. — Michael S. Horton

On my birthday, every year since I turned eighteen, she called me at twelve twenty in the morning to wish me happy birthday and tell me how much joy I brought her. She'd told me she was sorry she couldn't do it when I turned thirty, and handed me a box filled with little bits of paper. She'd written Happy Birthday to my baby boy on every one. There must have been fifty of them. — T.A. Webb

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can't heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them — Anne Bishop

Not all parachurch ministries are bad; in fact, the best ones foster collaboration across churches for important ministry and unity. — Mark Driscoll

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. — Marlon Brando

They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards. — John Calvin

Love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, they say, and it's true. — Osamu Dazai

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. — Dana Spiotta

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works. — Billy Graham

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. — Zona Gale