Quotes About Christian Popularity

#1. The passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).

Gregory Palamas

#2. Distance running demands a brain-body connection that no other creature is capable of.

Christopher McDougall

#3. They would feel more comfortable if only they thought how very much colder it would be later on and farther north; but this didn't cheer them up at

C.S. Lewis

#4. For the first time in a long time, connection had replaced connectedness. I'd never seen anything like it before, not on this scale. The effervescent pulse of human interaction. People turning to faces instead of screens. It was a splendor of its own.

Lauren Miller

#5. Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our
sense of balance and perspective.

Billy Graham

#6. Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

Vance Havner

#7. The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#9. We live in a world fashioned by a notoriously clever God who wove into creation all of the elements that we need to step over into the impossible if we're daring enough to do that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

Charles M. Schwab

#12. As the word 'tolerance' grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking.

Monica Johnson

#13. Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

Mark Rylance

#14. Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#15. Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Cathy Hopkins

#16. I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody.

Jason Graae

#17. My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

Jeremy Camp