“People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.” PeopleChurchEnvironmentProtectPlantEnvironmentalMinisters Book:Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture Source: Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture
“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.” ThinkingMenShouldHumansHelpingChristChurchAtheismProtectAmbitionPositive AtheismOur TimeFollyWorldlyChurch Of Christ Author:Hilary of Poitiers
“the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.” StatesGovernmentDesireChurchGrewProtectSeparationChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And State Author:Anna Quindlen
“Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.” WayFirstsMadeChristianReligionChurchSimpleAnswersLeaderShareParticularHigherProtectConceptsCriticismRaisesAverageAppearanceBelieverGapsAcademicBiblicalScholarship Author:John Shelby Spong
“People have an absolute right to believe what they want to believe and to say what they want to say, and churches have an absolute protection to preach and do and not do whatever they choose to do within their houses of worship. But nondiscrimination laws apply to the commercial marketplace and they do protect all of us.” PeopleWantBelieveLawHouseChurchProtectWorshipAbsolutesProtectionMarketplaceHouses Of Worship Author:Chris Christie
“My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.” ChildrenSufferingHurtChurchProtectInstitutionsIndifferenceArroganceInclination Author:Mark Shields
“A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies.” HumansEndsRealityFormUsedReligionPoliticsChurchReligiousHuman BeingsCompanyLibertyRightsAchievePolicyExerciseProtectOrganizationSeparationIdeologyCorporationsHobbiesChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious Liberty Author:Samuel Alito
“You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.” PeopleBookChristianJobsLeadershipChurchProtectPocketsBetter Jobs Author:Johnny Hunt