“[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.” PeopleSchoolAmericaChurchSituationSuccessfulMediaCreatingMassLoyaltyReformOppositionVotingPatrioticMass Media Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
“While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies.” FirstsPresidentChurchLeaderThirdsImmigrationReformFourthFifthFirst LadyImmigration ReformUtah Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.” MenWorldPoliticalSpiritChristChurchTeachThis WorldHolyAimKingdomsReformHoly SpiritEstablishmentReceivingBaptistsThoroughSectsCongregationProminentPersecutedHoly Man Book:Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers Source: Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers
“There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksHas BeensYoungChristChurchPossibilityTraditionWesternRadicalReformVitalityFidelityWestern World Author:George Pell
“The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsHeartGovernmentNightReligionLostCommunityLeadershipChurchDarkWalksActingAttitudeDarknessKnow HowHuman NatureWarmSeparationDialogueIdeologyReformMinistersOfficialsPastorChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateBureaucratsClergyDark NightGetting LostGovernment Officials Author:Pope Francis
“In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.” StillsIdeasLiteratureChurchCasesInfluenceLibraryPassionateRadicalReformOwnersSincereSpheresSympatheticControversialEvangelicalLutherans Author:Alison Weir
“Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.” FirstsChurchDivineMoralityCriticismTheologyReformAgendasTarget Author:Michael Horton