Activism Quote by Bill Hybels

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement…

— Mike McCurry

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual…

— Alan Hirsch

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having…

— Hans Kung

It is no surprise that when today's affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms -…

— Kathleen Neumeyer

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we…

— D. Elton Trueblood

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

— Michael W. Smith

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but…

— Michael Palin

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

— Whoopi Goldberg

It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment…

— Irving Kristol

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

— Win Butler

I still hope. I wouldn't be in this position if I didn't. I love the church. I love the Bible. But I think we're…

— John Shelby Spong

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as…

— Shane Claiborne