"There are many in the Church as well……" — Josiah Strong
"There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ."
—
Josiah Strong
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
24 Quotes by Josiah Strong
Josiah Strong has 24 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be…
-
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United…
-
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,
-
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that…
-
Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
-
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more…
-
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
-
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
-
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon…
-
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
-
Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded…
-
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it…
See all 24 quotes by Josiah Strong »
More Ceremonial Quotes
This quote is filed under Ceremonial Quotes,
one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle…
— Philip Sidney
-
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
— H.G. Wells
-
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to…
— Camille Paglia
-
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read…
— George Gillespie
-
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his…
— Franz Boas
-
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he…
— Erving Goffman
-
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended…
— Jamake Highwater
-
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary…
— David Abram
-
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its…
— John Ramsay McCulloch
-
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first…
— Arundhati Roy
-
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial…
— Dominique de Menil
-
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all…
— J L Austin
See all 38 Ceremonial Quotes »