Church Quote by Andy Stanley

“The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and…

— Craig & Nayhouy Greenfield

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to…

— Billy Graham

“The church is not a social club, which votes certain people in and excludes others, based on the way they look, dress, or sound.…

— Randall Allen Dunn

“the New Testament holds up the model of a church whose activities exist primarily for the sake of outsiders. What keeps us from becoming…

— Philip Yancey

“But once a church reaches a certain size, it stabilizes. The building gets finished, cash flow firms up, and a core membership is in…

— David Murrow

“Churches with high expectations not only reach the unchurched but retain them as well.”

— Thom S. Rainer

“The Church needs a firm hierarchy and is forced to distrust such of her underlings as show a tendency to become too holy.”

— Gabriel Chevallier

I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and…

— Michael Emerson

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

— Win Butler

“In addition to the transience of their members, churches themselves face a crisis of hypermobility. Many churches have put down only shallow roots in…

— C. Christopher Smith

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

— Francis Bacon

“Behind every downward trend in society lies the church’s permission in one form or another.”

— Klaus Bockmuehl