A Quote by T. D. Jakes

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

T. D. Jakes

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Church External Lost Passion Souls

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T. D. Jakes
American - Priest
Born: June 9, 1957

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

Lee Roberson

I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.

John R. Rice

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All other passions build upon or flow from your passion for Jesus. A passion for souls grows out of a passion for Christ. A passion for missions builds upon a passion for Christ. The most crucial danger to a Christian, whatever his role, is to lack a passion of Christ. The most direct route to personal renewal and new effectiveness is a new all-consuming passion for Jesus. Lord, give us this passion, whatever the cost!

Wesley L Duewel

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

Jim Butcher

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Wesley Morris

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

Albert Einstein

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

The threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in America who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for ISIL.

James Comey

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Charles Spurgeon

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals

Gilles Deleuze

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

William Booth

The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.