Quotes About Bad Churches

#1. Chris whistled. "Damn. That's hot."
She swatted him. "Yeah, yeah," she dais. But her stomach fluttered. "I'm roasting actually."
"That's not what I-

Mari Mancusi

#2. I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

Yann Martel

#3. Not all parachurch ministries are bad; in fact, the best ones foster collaboration across churches for important ministry and unity.

Mark Driscoll

#4. Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of 'em. There's a good to all of 'em and there's a bad.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#5. Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#6. Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

Michael Tanner

#8. We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last.

Tove Jansson

#9. Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#10. Benefit performances, bad paintings and statues, philanthropic societies, Gypsies, schools, subscription dinners, carousing, the Masons, churches, books - no one and nothing met with refusal,

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today).

Richard Wiseman

#13. We [US] can't compete with low-wage countries in different parts of the world. We cannot compete with countries that play games with currencies or regulations. We can't. We shouldn't.

Tom Wolf

#14. Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

John Piper

#15. Churches, laypersons, and ministers regularly have bad experiences in imbalanced churches and in response flee to the opposite extreme - an equally unbalanced form of ministry.

Timothy Keller