Church Quote by Thomas C. Oden Download Open image ““The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.”” — Thomas C. Oden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Modernity Postmodernity
“The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“The history of the church has reflected the evolution from premodernism to modernism in many ways. One clear example lies in the changing structure… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“The humdrum monotony and lifeless formality in the church has turned true Christianity out of doors.” — Joey Zorina Copy Share Image
“The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.” — Brother Andrew Copy Share Image
“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to recover (a)… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.” — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
“God’s holiness without God’s love would be unbearable. God’s love without God’s holiness would be unjust. God’s wisdom found a way to bring them… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Into your hands, 0 Lord, we commit ourselves this day. Give to each one of us a watchful, a humble, and a diligent spirit… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom, then God… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.” — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“The theater in which God has chosen to meet rational creatures quietly is the inward realm of conscience, moral reasoning, prayer, and study, especially… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Lord, inspire us to read your Scriptures and meditate upon them day and night. We beg you to give us real understanding of what… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“BECAUSE OF PIETY’S PENCHANT for taking itself too seriously, theology does well to nurture a modest, unguarded sense of comedy. Some droll sensibility is… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“Experiential sanctification is an ongoing process of daily rededication, reconsecration, mortification, and vivification of the whole person to God. It calls for believers to… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair 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
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… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic 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
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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