"Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way."

-- Stanley Hauerwas

#Growth Quotes #Church Quotes #Way Quotes

“Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.”

Source : "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.
“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.”
“Most people don't wear glasses in the U.S., and we're not conditioned to finding men and women who wear glasses sexy. If you need your glasses to see, find a good optometrist who can outfit you with a great frame, thin lenses, and a high-quality anti-reflective coating.”
“Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult
“Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.”
“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.”
“What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of”

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