Christian church Quote by Owen Strachan Download Open image ““The Christian church is losing its grasp on heaven and hell.”” — Owen Strachan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian church Christianity Heaven and hell
The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell." — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“When the church, the pulpit, and the pew get united, and God’s people are all of one mind, Christianity is like a red-hot ball… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough people, we’ve got… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“This is the church that Stanley High spoke of when he said: The church has failed to tell me that I am a sinner.… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
“The church is in God's keeping. We do not have the right to be anxious about it.We have our Lord's word that the gates… — Paul Weston Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know what to do when I realized that a religion that promised me heaven only seemed to bring me a perpetual hell.… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“Now, a plain word here about the Christian church trying to carry on in its own power: That kind of Christianity makes God sick,… — A. W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Church is God’s people intentionally committing to die together so that others can find his kingdom.” — Hugh Halter Copy Share Image
“I think we should keep politics out of church, and back in hell where it belongs.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The biblical doctrine of hell reshapes all our thinking about the future of this world and its inhabitants.” — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“He did not make us all the same. He loves diversity. He revels in it. He created a world that pulses with difference, that… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“Arriving in the town of Princeton in the full flowering of fall, he could not help but gush: “Everything is gothic,” he wrote to Ray. “It makes one feel as though he lived back in the fourteenth century. Even the lights are so arranged. I expected much but it has passed all my expectations. It is cultured to the enth… — Owen Strachan Copy Share
“Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.” — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“He concluded the point with an explosive distinction: “The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism,’” not secularist thought, for “Christianity is founded upon… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“Pastors are appointed by God to help their people see that the church walks in the light and all others in darkness. We, the… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“But Ockenga did not shy away from identifying himself—and his pulpit—with Calvinism, which many years prior had shaped the New England mind. “Whatever we… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“Whatever response we draw, we’ve got to know this: evangelism is not easy. It’s not supposed to be. It’s challenging to tell someone that… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“You follow God, and you just might get asked to walk in the wilderness. For forty years.” — Owen Strachan 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 his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I do not go to church. I don’t go to Christian church or Jew church or any other church. I don’t go to church at all. Not ever. A perfect Sunday for me is spent drinking green tea while reading the Sunday New York Times. Yikes! Why don’t I just turn in my Al-Qaeda membership form and call it a… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share
“Thus that Upright Judge, whose three Letters my Friend having read, did well approve of 'em, acknowledging, that with great Exactness he had distinguished between Religion and Priest-craft: And he added, If you will shew me, Sir, any Christian Church where that distinction is observed, I will become a Member of it. I recommended the Church of England ; he… — William Stephens Copy Share
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What if many listeners hold a profoundly different understanding of the concepts of God, truth, right and wrong, freedom, virtue, and sin? What if their approaches to reality, human nature and destiny, and human community are wholly different from our own? For decades, this has been the situation facing Christian churches in many areas around the world — places such… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it cannot be supposed that the inspired Apostles ... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church. In proving this subject justifiable by Scriptural authority [Luke 12:47], its morality is also… — Richard Furman Copy Share
For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
“The “Founding Fathers” were not Christian. They were Deists. Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy, emerging from the European Enlightenment. Deists understood “God” to be the principle of organization and intelligence in the universe. This ordering principle could be discerned by rational thought and investigation, but it was not a personal deity who could be petitioned by humans. Deists considered… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share
