Ed Stetzer Quotes

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

Ed Stetzer

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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 laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Up
  • God
  • Age

• 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 didn't want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us - I was the middle child - and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Time
  • Children
  • Night

• 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

• There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?

  

  Georges Perec
  • Space
  • Describe

• The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

  

  Charles Krauthammer

• I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.

  

  Cardi B
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Church
  • Immunization
  • Institutionalize