Ed Stetzer Quotes

The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.

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• Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • You
  • Church
  • Bible

• I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Book
  • Bad

• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • You
  • Church
  • Act

• Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Day

• The Church, the organized expression of the religious life of the past, is one of the most potent institutions and forces in Western civilization. ...It cannot help throwing its immense weight on one side or the other. If it tries not to act, it thereby acts; and in any case its choice will be decisive for its own future.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Future

• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Sympathy

• Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Great
  • God
  • Church

• For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • School
  • High
  • Community

• I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God
  • Church
  • Catholic

• The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • True
  • Peace
  • Church

• You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

  

  Bess Truman
  • May
  • Church
  • Wedding

• We went to a very liberal Episcopalian church. It didn't take for me.

  

  David Newman
  • Church

• We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

  

  Pete McCloskey
  • Church

• I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Church

• My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with God versus how I sing. People in church are like, 'You sing the devil's music,' but I believe in balance. I can't just party with you. I got to help you, too.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • She
  • Wife
  • Church

• I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

  

  George Carey
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Church

• I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • School
  • Parents

• No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • Writing
  • Power
  • American

• The institutionalizing of the church is essentially its immunization to an evangelistic impulse.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Church
  • Immunization
  • Institutionalize