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“That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!”

Past Spiritual Church Leader Masters Disease Weakness Eternity Delight Spread Faithful Serving Historian Scholar Employed Repent Pointing Germs Frailty Destroyers Jeopardy Great Spiritual

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope.”

Looks Force Church Struggle Brother Return Bears Weakness Mercy Joyful New Life Brothers And Sisters Basics Looking To The Future

Author:Pope Francis

“If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.”

People Ifs Want Needs Believe Made Enough Would Be Christ Church Perfect Weakness Sinner Repentance Good Enough Imperfection Righteous Follow Me Not Good Enough Confessing

Author:Washington Gladden

“We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.”

Source: Apocalypse

“Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.”

Children Lying Song Felt Water Church Perfect Sea Weakness Difficulty Infinite Divides Helplessness Deliverance

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.”

Persons Reason Able Individual Church Ability Weakness Institutions Threat Rationality Inability Teachable Individual Strength

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.”

Ifs World Christ Church Sacrifice Weakness Around The World Landscape Revolutionary Transforming

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.”

Men Today Church Weakness Shoulders Servant Approval Servant Of God Church Today

Author:R. C. Sproul

“You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness.”

Christian Fall Leadership Church Weakness Areas

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.”

War Life Is Church Prayer Darkness Weakness Missions Neglect Unbelief Owing Wartime Talkies Walkie Talkies

Book:Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions

Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions