It is essential to realize that the Christian community in…

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a…

— Elaine Pagels

“Whatever may be the cause of this crisis, it is certain that it is a spiritual one, since it represents the failure of civilized…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,…

— Sarah Arthur

“It is right and proper that Christian men should rejoice in whatever manner they feel is compatible with their experience of Christ and the…

— Stuart Briscoe

There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country.

— Rush Limbaugh

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful…

— George Amos Dorsey

When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic…

— John Dewey

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the…

— Karl Hess

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

— Geoffrey West

Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions…

— Daniel Katz

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

— John Dewey

“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity. It is…

— Stephen Ross