Monsignor James P. Shea > Quotes

“The Church does not grow by Mass movement; it moves forward one soul at a time, as each individual catches the fire of belief from another and is grafted into the body of Christ. The importance is not found in numbers but in the intensity of the flame, as the Apostles understood.”
― Monsignor James P. Shea, From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age