Top 31 Quotes About Laity
#1. The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.
Pope Francis
#2. We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
Dorothy Day
#3. Edward Markquart, a brilliant homoletician, wrote: People want their preachers to be authentic human beings ... who experience the same feelings and struggles as the laity, who do not hide behind the role of reverend so and so.
Calvin Miller
#4. Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.
Eugene Kennedy
#5. They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not
meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#6. Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.
John Selden
#7. Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.
David Augsburger
#8. A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.
J.C. Ryle
#9. Outreach begins with a well-taught laity, stirred by the great truths of Scripture.
Michael S. Horton
#10. The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.
John Wycliffe
#11. The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
Karl Barth
#12. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
James Madison
#13. And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.
Dorothy Dunnett
#14. It is the whip that clerics use on the laity, making the sheep slaves to whatever moral code the shepherds espouse. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity.
Kevin Hearne
#15. The main focus of this group is to help bridge the gifts and abilities of the pastor (and other staff) and laity in the church. Building the bridges that will link the faithfulness of the past with the possibilities of the future is crucial.
General Board Of Discipleship
#17. There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but woe to those who become leaders.
Eugene H. Peterson
#19. Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.
Roland Allen
#20. Evangelism is not a calling reserved exclusively for the clergy. I believe one of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.
Billy Graham
#21. Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.
Tom Bunk
#22. Most people give up their pursuit of genius early on and spend their lives desperately seeking it in others.
K.A. Laity
#23. But now I see there's no such thing as "a" woman, "one" woman. There are dozens inside every one of them. I probably should have figured this out sooner, but what child can see the women inside her mom, what with all the Motherness blocking out everything else?
Kelly Corrigan
#24. We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.
K.A. Laity
#25. Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them
and others cower in the dark crying, It burns! It burns!
K.A. Laity
#26. The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
Bee Wilson
#27. Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us
Zoran
#28. Great, huge sobs for herself, for her relatives, for the torment and shame of her past, for losses which could never be recovered.
Sally Laity
#29. Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.
K.A. Laity
#30. Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. Ben Says: Live your life helping to inspire others and you will never regret it
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
