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“The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.”

Littles Church Situation Fields Tradition Complicated Islamic Scholarship Priesthood

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.”

World Feels Ends Culture Church Situation Christianity Seeds Soil Backyards

Book:Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture

Source: Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture

“[...] 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.”

People School America Church Situation Successful Media Creating Mass Loyalty Reform Opposition Voting Patriotic Mass Media

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.”

Church Situation Wife Husband Members Killing Pastor Church Members

Author:Paul Rusesabagina

“America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.”

Years Has Beens Funny America Church Sleep Situation Nervous Tense Can't Sleep

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.”

People Difficult Church Responsibility Situation Leader Accepting Possibility Circumstances Weak Blame Difficult Situations Church Leaders Weak Leaders

Book:Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

Source: Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

“Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.”

Way Ends Play Hands Church Situation Lord Plans Broken Tools Supposed To Be Crush The End Of The Day Kill Me Discarded

Author:Fred Hammond

“It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.”

“[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.”

Mean Christian Church Situation Catholic Salvation Scary Comparison Fullness Catholic Church Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church

Author:Pope Benedict XVI