Doug Pagitt Quotes

#1. One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.'

Doug Pagitt

#2. The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

Doug Pagitt

#3. Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. The early evangelists recognized they could help the Jesus story make sense if Jesus was seen as someone who was chosen to appease the wrath of God - hence, the 'anointed one' who could do what no one else could do..

Doug Pagitt

#5. I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

Lloyd Alexander

#6. It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

Melissa McCarthy

#7. This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

Doug Pagitt

#8. Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#9. I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

Catherine Hardwicke

#10. Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.

Doug Pagitt

#11. And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

Doug Pagitt