“Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.” ThinkingUseReligionReligiousGroupsMovementProductsSpreadIdeologyContagiousSkillfulCharismaticEvangelists Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.” GodWantedMovingReligionHouseMovementBreadAltarsBowel Movements Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.” WellsChristianReligionBeliefHeavenChristianityCenturyMovementRevolutionPerspectiveRoseCome UpSecureCommunismClassicRomeResurrectionUtopiaBucketsAgitationAthens Author:Will Durant
“My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.” PeopleEarthReligionDiesKnownChristianityFireMovementOne DayElementsCeaseExcitementMethodistsSupernatural Elements Author:John Wesley