Beth Moore Quotes

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

We who are Christians, members of God’s family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

If you see something that you feel is wrong in society, why not help out?

Let's come together as the body of Christ and reach out and be the true hands and feet of Christ.

When I'm not hitting the books or on the court working, I like to help out around my community.

That's what it's all about, going out and being able to help in the community and help people around you. That's going to carry far longer than basketball ever will.

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

Recently, I was giving a speech and I said that it's time for many of us to "go home." Not necessarily to move back home but rather to go back to our communities and support those outreach programs and those people who could use our assistance.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.

Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to keep going to the margins of our society. The homeless, the starving, parentless children, people with AIDS, our emotionally disturbed brothers and sisters - they require our first attention.

Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do.

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.

The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.