Church Quote by Tony Evans Download Open image “The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.” — Tony Evans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Good Influence Positive Positive influence World
The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“A "successful" church can offer outstanding programs and ministries, but if its members are not being transformed, it is not a healthy church.” — Kevin G. Ford Copy Share Image
Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when… — George Edmund Street Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism,… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.]… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“Faith is never simply a feeling. Faith always involves movement. Get moving.” — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Getting to know God by His names is more than simply learning a new word or discovering a new title He goes by. Learning… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society. — Tony Evans 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 terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001. — Anthea Butler Copy Share
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 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
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 Christianity but rather the kingdom of God. ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share
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
![“It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce…” quote by Anthony of Sourozh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef9/anthony-of-sourozh-50914_characteristics_it-seems-to-me-and-i-am-personally-convi_1558955.jpg)
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![“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 - the new covenant, blood-bought people of God. That's why Paul said, 'Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her' (Eph. 5:25). He didn't give himself up for a…” quote by Mark Dever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a4/mark-dever-3175_blood_t-he-church-is-not-a-place-it-s-not-a-bu_3297.jpg)
