{"quotes":[{"text":"The Church has carried out some of the most inhuman and above all un-Christian acts of human history, yet, it is still gloriously hailed by the majority of human population as to be synonymous with Jesus Christ.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","christ","christianity","christianity","christianity-religion-atheism","church","church-leadership","compassion","fundamentalism","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","truth","violence","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":10540,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Mere talents does not give glory to God but a humble heart.","author":"Mac Canoza","tags":["challenging-ity","church-leadership","humbleness","humility","inspirational","leadership","praise-and-worship","talents-and-gifts","worship","worship-leader"],"id":15791,"author_id":"Mac+Canoza"},{"text":"Don't just cry over your 10 or 20 member church. Sometimes, God gives you your future first. The ones you call little carry in them every possibility you desire of the future. God would send you leaders but they may come as weak men and women first. Don't be so 'gift' conscious that you fail to realize that certain things are results of growth.","author":"Kingsley Opuwari Manuel","tags":["christianity","church","church-leadership","church-ministry","growing-churches","pastor","pastoral-ministry"],"id":18841,"author_id":"Kingsley+Opuwari+Manuel"},{"text":"Without the persistent rising up of individuals that seek the Lord and place themselves under His direct leadership, churches will inevitably...Slip into human hierarchy, institutionalizing a system of doctrines and practices.","author":"Henry Hon","tags":["church","church-leadership","church-structure","hierarchy","institutionalism","leadership","organization","religion"],"id":42403,"author_id":"Henry+Hon"},{"text":"Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","bible-reading","brainy","buddha","buddhism","christ","church","church-leadership","compassion","fundamentalism","hindu","hinduism","holy-bible","inspirational","inspiring","love","love-thy-neighbor","new-testament","nirvana","old-testament","orthodoxy","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-faith","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","truth","violence","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":65003,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.","author":"John Paul Warren","tags":["church","church-leadership","pastor-john-paul","pastor-john-paul-warren","pastors-conferences","school-of-ministry","the-church","voice-of-the-nations"],"id":65405,"author_id":"John+Paul+Warren"},{"text":"I NEVER KNEW YOU.Only those who do not practice sin can stand in the presence of the holy God.1 John 3:6No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.","author":"Mac Canoza","tags":["christianity-faith","church-leadership","hindrances-in-worship","inspirational","leadership","quotes","spirituality","wisdom","worship-leading","worship-team"],"id":82854,"author_id":"Mac+Canoza"},{"text":"You can't do it alone. Two things joined to a third thing are joined to each other. A is united to B and C is united to B. Therefore, A and C are united.","author":"Maria Gregory","tags":["christian","church-leadership","family-relationships","love","wisdom-inspirational"],"id":95315,"author_id":"Maria+Gregory"},{"text":"By infusing Jesus the man with the divine magic – by making him capable of earthly miracles as well as his own resurrection, the early church turned him into a god within the human world. Thus, the church reinforced the monopoly on the so-called route to heaven, I.E. Salvation only through Jesus Christ. And during those days, whoever kept the keys to heaven would rule the world.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","christ","church","church-history","church-leadership","compassion","fundamentalism","heaven","inspirational","inspiring","jesus","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","salvation","truth","violence","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":104466,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Whether in the name of Just War, Witch-Hunt or the Inquisition, at various points of history for various poppycock reasons the cross had been the weapon of mass destruction in the hands of the orthodox church.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","christ","church","church-leadership","compassion","fundamentalism","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","religion","religious-extremism","religious-tolerance","religious-violence","truth","violence","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":118764,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}