Carl Olson Quotes

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

As Christians we’re called to belong, not just to believe. We are not meant to live lone-ranger lives; instead, we are to belong to Christ’s family and be members of his body.

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.

Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil. Well join me - I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.

What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event and fact of cosmic history. From then on everything is differentthe End came forward into the present in Jesus the Messiah

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being saved from sin and going to heaven. But when we understand both Jesus and Paul in their historical contexts within the first-century Jewish world, the issues become both more complex and ultimately (I believe) more clear.

Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.