Church Quote by Philip Yancey

“If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world?”

— Lakesha Ruise

“Behind every downward trend in society lies the church’s permission in one form or another.”

— Klaus Bockmuehl

“Generally speaking, the reason the church fails to have a more positive, transforming influence on our culture is that we do not fully grasp…

— Philip Graham Ryken

“We as the church do not want to lag behind society today, in terms of welcoming people of different cultures, races, and abilities.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

— E. Stanley Jones

“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

“There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this…

— Robert Speer

“when we expect the church to entertain us, it limits the church’s ability to challenge us. Entertainment rarely transforms.”

— Barna Group

“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

“Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.”

— Brother Andrew

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

— Alan Green

“I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period.…

— Henry David Thoreau