Worldly Church Quotes

#1. the worldly church (accommodationist) and the isolated church (exclusivist). "[The worldly church] thinks of itself as responsible to society for God rather than to God for society";226 the isolated church "seeks to respond to God but does so only for itself.

Atsuyoshi Fujiwara

#2. A church that loses its distinctiveness is a church that has nothing distinctive with which to engage the culture. A worldly church is of no good to the world.

Russell D. Moore

#3. The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.

Samuel Chadwick

#4. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.

A.W. Tozer

#5. I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one.

A.W. Tozer

#6. I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

Wendy Davis

#7. The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.

Megan McKenna

#8. The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

Craig Groeschel

#11. The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.

Owen Strachan

#12. I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable ... eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Pope Francis

#13. Poor goddamned rummies,' Marie said. 'I pity a rummy.'
'He's a lucky rummy.'
'There ain't any lucky rummies,' Marie said. 'You know that, Harry.'
'No,' I said. 'I guess there aren't.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

#15. There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

Nicolas Roeg

#16. Not many of us serve in the Jesus Way. I don't. In fact, I don't see many people in the churches that do. Most of us do fairly worldly jobs in church and call them "service" and adopt a worldly role and call it "servant.

Christy Wimber

#17. The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.

Judith Herrin

#18. But the only thing of value the church has to offer is the gospel. I believe that one result of the emerging Experience Economy will be a longing for authenticity. To the extent that the church stages worldly experiences, it will lose its effectiveness.

Skye Jethani

#19. If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#20. No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

Iggy Azalea

#21. There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive.

George C. Lorimer

#22. Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.

Isabella MacDonald Alden

#23. Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.

Andre Malraux

#24. It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

Paul McCartney

#25. The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

Hilary Of Poitiers

#26. When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God's simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you.

Pope Francis

#27. Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Pope Francis

#29. Be not lifted up by thy worldly successes so as to be ashamed of the truth or of the poor church with which thou hast been associated.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#30. Striking a woman was something weak men did; men with little moral fibre and no self-control. It was a coward's response to a situation. And

Steven A. McKay

#31. The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

Norman Macbeth

#32. Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

David A. Bednar

#33. Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.

Paul David Washer

#34. Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.

Gwenn Wright

#35. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon