29 Quotes by Christian Smith

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

I don't think any of us will hardly see it. We're surrounded by trees.

I am very excited to be a part of Liberty's wrestling program.

how inarticulate most teenagers were about their religious faith.

A huge problem facing the mid market, particularly with fast-growing companies is, 'how can we standardized best practices, methodologies and templates, so we don't have re-create the wheel every time we have a new project or initiative?' Typically these kinds of companies are using ad-hoc methods and have simply outgrown them. Solutions in a Box provides an automated, cost effective way to standardize, but at the same time is completely customized and configured to their business needs.

The financial assistance is available. We are eager to help them, not only financially, but from a counseling standpoint, so we can try to make the process as easy as possible.

Although all things with physical substance are real, not all real things have physical substance.