Religious Trends Quotes

Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

The mass media in Saudi Arabia should oppose destructive, trends, atheistic tendencies, materialistic philosophies and attempts to divert Muslims from their faith.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.

And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.

Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay.

Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st.

I was doing worship as a lifestyle before it was a section at the bookstore.

In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

The key to Rev Billy Graham’s success was his uncanny ability to adopt trends in the wider culture, and then use them for his evangelistic and moral reforms.

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

I don't know if [Barack Obama] saw the latest religion survey, but almost a quarter of the country are Nones. I don't mean the ones who hit me on the knuckles with a ruler in Sunday School - I mean they put "None" for religion.

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.