Church Quote by Charles W. Penrose

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and…

— William Gibson

Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the practical existence…

— Adolf Hitler

The church was made for mission-God's mission

— Christopher J. H. Wright

“separation of church from mission is theologically indefensible. More”

— Lesslie Newbigin

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine…

— Anonymous

“Theology, after all, was made for the sake of the church, not the church for theology.”

— N.T. Wright

“We have obsessed over Sunday-morning proclamation gatherings and organizational systems for so long, we have forgotten how to do honest missiological work in our…

— Verlon Fosner

And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism,…

— Alan Hirsch

“if God had a church it would not be split up into factions, and that if he taught one society to worship one way,…

— Joseph Smith Jr

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor…

— Brennan Manning

Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture…

— John Stott