Believe Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“Generally speaking, the reason the church fails to have a more positive, transforming influence on our culture is that we do not fully grasp…

— Philip Graham Ryken

If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of…

— Thom S. Rainer

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world…

— John Mott

The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have…

— Paul Washer

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings…

— Ali Sina

The influence of the Church does not depend on the Church, it depends on the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will never lose…

— Max Lucado

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself…

— Tony Evans

I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors…

— Michael Horton

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to believe ... the relation of the Church to the world is…

— D Bonhoeffer

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious…

— Wallace Stevens