Quotes about Popular

Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.

the Platonized eschatology so popular over many centuries (how will my soul get to heaven?) has played host to a moralized anthropology (what's to be done about my sin?), generating a quasi-pagan soteriology (God killed Jesus instead of punishing me).

The 'popular Paul' has all too often been addressing sixteenth-century questions in a nineteenth-century tone of voice

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in his hand.

The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times.

The church is never in so much danger as when it is popular and millions of people are saying "I'm born again, born again, born again.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

In the strict sense I would not call him a writer at all. (...) Crabbin said, He was just a popular entertainer. Why the hell not? Martins said fiercely. Oh well, I merely meant... What was Shakespeare?

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.