Top 34 Barna Quotes
#1. According to Barna surveys, 61 percent of today's youth had been churched at one point during their teen years but are now spiritually disengaged.
Philip Yancey
#2. Christian researcher George Barna concludes, "American Christianity has largely failed since the middle of the twentieth century because Jesus' modern-day disciples do not act like Jesus.
Skye Jethani
#3. The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.
George Barna
#5. I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.
Eugene Mirman
#6. I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
Debra Winger
#7. So Hermione was the siren, and Lucy was the trusty friend, and all was right with the world. Or if not right, then at least quite predictable.
Julia Quinn
#8. It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion
Joe Abercrombie
#9. We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
George Barna
#10. If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.
George Barna
#11. Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.
George Barna
#12. Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
Marge Piercy
#13. Today's churchless adults are not remarkably less favorable toward churches in their community; if anything, there is simply a growing "yawn,
George Barna
#14. The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.
George Barna
#15. It is not a church's job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.
George Barna
#16. Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.
George Barna
#17. Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.
Margaret Atwood
#18. Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
Natan Sharansky
#19. Our studies consistently show a large majority of people leave their church's service without feeling as though they have connected with God. If those who regularly attend depart with such disappointment and confusion, what must it be like for those who are new to the church adventure?
George Barna
#21. When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.
George Barna
#22. God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.
George Barna
#23. Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
William Butler Yeats
#24. There is only one right way to eat a steak - with greed in your heart and a smile on your face.
Soumeet Lanka
#25. Science never abandoned me the way religion had that night.
Forsaking the Holy Father was considered a sin, and I did it repeatedly. Each time my blade met with flesh, I sinned more and welcomed it.
God no longer held dominion over my soul.
Kerri Maniscalco
#26. The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.
George Barna
#27. The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
Don Bluth
#28. Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit - they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God's power or presence or purity.
George Barna
#29. Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.
George Barna
#30. When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.
James Dobson
#31. I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
Jay Parini
#32. Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.
George Barna
#33. Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.
George Barna
#34. Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
William Gibson
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