Time Quote by Charles W. Colson

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is…

— Joseph Sobran

“The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.”

— Thomas C. Oden

“Age and use do not make a style obsolete in the church as they do in secular entertainment; rather, they consecrate it.”

— Claude V. Palisca

“We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes time can…

— Dorothy Day

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

— Klaus Bockmuehl

“we spend a lot of our time navel gazing. We talk about church decline, and whether or not to sell our buildings, and what…

— Emily C. Heath

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

“I have a problem with a church that has its main mission aimed at preferential treatment of rich, attractive, influential, and gifted people. Instead,…

— Scott S. Haraburda

“We as the church do not want to lag behind society today, in terms of welcoming people of different cultures, races, and abilities.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“My complaint is not against the work that the churches have done, but the work that they could have done through leadership that was…

— Napoleon Hill

“Times are changing, and we must change with them. The twenty-first-century church does and will continually face radical change and much uncertainity with undefined…

— Steve Raimo

“Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful…

— Max Andrew Dubinsky