Agency Quote by Karl Lehmann

“The church potential is measured by their society impact.”

— Alin Sav

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that…

— Philip Yancey

The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to…

— Pope Francis

The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and…

— Charles Colson

“In my opinion, the Church only possesses the moral authority to speak to others about its ethics only when it holds itself accountable at…

— Scott S. Haraburda

I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors…

— Michael Horton

The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system. It's not…

— Tony Evans

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

— Felix Adler

“When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession…

— Charles W. Colson

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design…

— Billy Graham

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their…

— Edd Doerr