Believer Quote by Gene Veith

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually…

— John Piper

When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to…

— Charles Grandison Finney

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

— Samuel Chadwick

The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their…

— Dallas Willard

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

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Church is full of Hypocrites!" Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church…

— Lee Goff

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions…

— St. Jerome

It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be…

— Wesley L Duewel

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe