Faith Compromise Quotes

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed – sort of – but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.

The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel