18th century Quote by N. T. Wright

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the…

— John C. Maxwell

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to…

— Ross Douthat

The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.

— John C. Maxwell

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already…

— Felix Adler

[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it.”

— Keith Porteous Wood

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have…

— Nicky Gumbel

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

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

— Stanley Hauerwas

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit…

— John C. Maxwell

Wars will be increasingly more hypocrite, they will pass from the classical battle field to informatics systems counting new eases to be built or…

— Sorin Cerin

It's true, the Church will be raptured before the final seven years of Earth's history, but during that final seven years, many people will…

— Robert Jeffress