Quotes About Ecumenism

#1. Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one ... 'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. Modern ecumenism rightly began in mission, but then lapsed into a merger mentality, then defensive bureaucracy, and finally into unrepresentative forms of extreme politicization.

Thomas C. Oden

#4. There's power in believing there's a God in each of us because if we are made in His/Her/Their image, aren't we all like good horcruxes for God? Because a piece of them is in us?

Luvvie Ajayi

#5. This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

Melanie Ross

#6. In this world there is no place for sadness. No place; not one.

Banana Yoshimoto

#7. There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

Jason Aldean

#9. Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?

George Whitefield

#10. When we require that all people must say the same words or subscribe to the same creeds in order to experience God, we underestimate the scope and power of God's activity in the world.

Rachel Held Evans

#11. Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Friedrich Schiller

#12. A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

Philip Pullman

#13. In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.

Sherry Turkle

#14. Zionists are the source of destructions, I wish I can fight against them.

Mel Gibson

#15. Self-education is lifelong curiosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

Bonnie Tyler

#17. I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

Brendan Coyle

#18. I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Bob Dylan

#19. There are two different ways to bow
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 19, 2016

Petra Hermans

#20. I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

Michael Caine

#21. If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

#22. You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Prince Charles