Building Quote by Mark Batterson Download Open image “In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.” — Mark Batterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Church Environment Past Time Urban
Essentially, a church is a community that keeps alive the dangerous memories of its classics. — David Tracy Copy Share Image
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world. — Luis Palau Copy Share Image
Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past. — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“The world is now an urban place. The resources and concerns of the church need to acknowledge this.” — J.R. Woodward Copy Share Image
Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on… — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be. — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
“The path of least resistance never gets us where we want to go. Shortcuts always end up being cul-de-sacs. The key to spiritual growth… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them.” — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“You can’t play the man if you don’t pray the price. That’s how God turns the heart. You’ll never be a perfect parent, but… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image