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The major heresy of the Western churches is that they have largely turned around the very meaning of faith—not knowing and not needing to know—into its exact opposite: demanding to know and insisting that we do know!
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our institutions and our expectations, including our churches, are almost entirely configured to encourage, support, reward, and validate the tasks of the first half of life.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in some churches.
- Rick Warren
The only group large enough to handle, the world's biggest, problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.
- Rick Warren
Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals — hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart. You think, Maybe this time it will be different, but it doesn't solve your real problem — a lack of focus and purpose.
- Rick Warren
Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals — hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.
- Rick Warren
We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
- Charles Spurgeon
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
- Dallas Willard
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
- JI Packer
If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.
- Rick Warren
churches for their purposes, Richard
- Richard Wurmbrand