Lay Ministry Quotes

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.

It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.