James MacDonald Quotes

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.