Low level Quote by Rodney Stark

“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

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

— Klaus Bockmuehl

“People no longer need to go to church to hear the Word, which has been the selling point for local churches for the past…

— Justin Wise

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

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

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

“It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to…

— Gary Smith

“Europe has become a post-Christian culture in which the principal religious influence is visible in art treasures and cathedrals filled with tourists rather than…

— Charles W. Colson

“In a society in which idolatry runs rampant, a church that is not iconoclastic is a travesty. If it is not against the idols…

— Herbert Schlossberg

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself…

— Tony Evans

“The church needs to arise not just against total and absolute ignorance, the church also needs to arise against half-truth or falsehood, which is…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The Church risks irrelevance when it makes central God's preference for the poor and not His universal favor toward the poor in spirit.”

— Gilbert Mylender