Christian Smith Quotations

More and more people will be going into the Katrina-impacted area. Then, you'll see people go into the Rita-impacted area. This will go on for many, many months.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, it's just sitting down (and) talking to them, walking them through the process. Every single one of them, after they receive their assistance, they understand. They know that it takes time to process cases.

There is a fraud going on in this country where offshore hedge funds dwelling in an unregulated environment are selling massive numbers of shares short and doing various schemes not to cover (their short positions), ... In the process, companies are getting destroyed, technology is getting destroyed, and hard working Americans are getting screwed.

What we want people to do if they will, is to continue to volunteer long-term. Give us a couple of weeks and we'll get them in the next training classes.

Going into the last lap, I could really feel the crowd urging him on. But I was able to hold him off there and at that point I felt I could hold him off the rest of the way.

We were standing inside the building and all the sudden it just turned brown and the wind was blowing. The doors all blew in and then dust and dirt and everything came flying in. I was like, 'what they heck happened? And we all went out, and about that time it had already gone through the dealership. I noticed all the windows were blown out and I looked over there. You could see the funnel coming out of the cloud. It never touched the ground.

We are doing all of our regular day-to-day functions to the best of our ability, and it's working.

Sometimes they need people to talk to, and that's why our mental health counselors are here.

It was sunny out. There was a little bit of a cloud over us and that's where it came down off the side of the cloud.

It's a fine line, we have to make sure we replace quality with quality.

The average homestead is valued at just over $203,000. The average taxpayer living in such a home will pay about $42 a year, ... In the current year, they're paying $771, and it's projected to go to $813.

I'm just glad that nobody got hurt. That's the main thing.

The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

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.