Atheism Quote by John William Draper

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

— Robert Hugh Benson

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

— Hilaire Belloc

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith…

— Boyd K. Packer

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual…

— Alan Hirsch

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

— G. Campbell Morgan

The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“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

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the…

— Andy Stanley

The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you

— Hans Conzelmann

“When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is…

— Lesslie Newbigin