Religion Quote by Frank Schaeffer Download Open image ““...evangelicalism is not not so much a religion as a series of fast-moving personality cults.”” — Frank Schaeffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
“evangelicals overestimate our size and influence as a movement.” — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
“Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but whose Facebook page you still… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“An evangelical is one who says to a liberal, 'I'll call you a Christian if you call me a scholar.” — Russell Moore Copy Share Image
“The word evangelical is thrown around quite loosely these days in the media. It has become synonymous with being a Republican or a conservative.… — Jerry Kinard Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.” — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“With each younger generation, evangelicals account for less of their generation.” — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
“Younger evangelicals “want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world.” — Erick Erickson Copy Share Image
“There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“These were quirks, and at first I understood them as little more than strict rules that I could either comply with or get around.… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“[...]one who will not learn to handle the Bible for himself is not an evangelical Christian.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview.” — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The last thing I crave is to be exposed to the sort of grandstanding preachers that so many evangelical churches seem to breed with… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“I don’t view you as a market segment. I view you as my partner, an individual reader, a friend as complex and maybe even… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“We are part of nature yet we have decided to be nicer than nature.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Some people who helped lead that movement—including me—were very much like Hunka Munka and Tom Thumb. We lived lives informed by beliefs that were not based on fact and that led to deep-seated resentments that couldn’t be cured because what we resented never actually happened. We took it as a personal insult that the real world didn’t conform to the… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
I think that unlike W Bush who was an actual evangelical and sincerely so (my family knew the Bush family), of course Trump will… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“who is actually delusional? Who is actually following Jesus: fundamentalist Christians rejecting gay men and lesbians’ right to marry, or atheist humanists treating men and women with love and dignity? Fact-based, enlightened atheists sometimes treat people like shit, and delusional fundamentalists sometimes miss a book event in order to help a lonely hotel maid. Labels don’t mean anything. Who cares… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share
“Labels don’t mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible and ignored… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image