Unchurched Quotes

#1. People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

Marina And The Diamonds

#2. I do know this ... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Joel Osteen

#3. Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Stephen Covey

#4. To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Martin E. Marty

#5. An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

John Stott

#6. What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

David F. Wells

#7. God's downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becoming a sheep without a Shepherd - and all in the name of mission. Instead of churching the unchurched, we are well on our way to even unchurching the churched.

Michael S. Horton

#8. We have so many churches these days that instead of reaching the unchurched are unchurching the churched"
~ Dr. Michael Horton

Anna Sofia Botkin

#9. The four of us sat around the pentagram holding hands. I wondered if we were about to sing Kumbaya.

Rachel Hawkins

#10. First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257]

Anne Lamott

#11. I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

Jesse Stuart

#12. A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Kate Greenaway

#13. I think there's a tendency, and it's an understandable tendency, to imagine that China makes decisions out of a grand strategy. The reality is that I think China today is operating, most of all, based on its domestic needs.

Evan Osnos

#14. Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Jeff Garlin

#15. For the sea to be silent, wind must be silent, earthquake must be silent, boat must be silent, fish must be silent; behind every silence, there lies the silence of everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

Kate Middleton

#17. After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

Tom Brady

#18. I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.

Franz Kafka

#19. FCA is a place where young people, many of whom are unchurched, can come and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Betsy King

#20. The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.

Sam Shoemaker

#21. The "unchurching" of the next generation is happening right under our noses, even in the very churches that pride themselves on reaching the unchurched.

Michael S. Horton

#22. When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.

Roseanne Barr

#23. My greatest wish
other than salvation
was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

Yann Martel

#24. Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

Andy Stanley