Believe Quote by Will Durant

“Finally, it is wrong to say that "nothing" is more basic to the identity of the church than suffering. Nothing is more basic to…

— Keith A. Mathison

“...the institutional church, which exists to serve the people of God, is never to be confused with the church as mystery - the Christ-centered,…

— Brennan Manning

“Maybe today some people see opposition between, on the one hand, a seemingly barren, old, institutional church, cut off from the world, looking after…

— Jean Vanier

I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they…

— Anna Quindlen

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

— Shane Claiborne

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no…

— Eddie Gibbs

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching…

— Willie Aames

What does it mean to be a Saint? In the Lord's Church, the members are Latter-day Saints, and they attempt to emulate the Savior,…

— Quentin L. Cook

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I…

— Elton John

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all…

— Francine Rivers