Quotes about Hostile
That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, "Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.
— Philip Yancey
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal opposition to poverty, racism and militarism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.
— Timothy Keller
The Lord said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh." —Exodus 7:1 Jesus gives us the same privilege God gave to Moses—to speak for Him to a hostile world.
— Brother Andrew
God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
— Numbers 24:8
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
— Philip Yancey
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
— Romans 8:7
A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those who reject the gospel of Christ. By the equivocal use of traditional phrases, by the representation of differences of opinion as though they were only differences about the interpretation of the Bible, entrance into the Church was secured for those who are hostile to the very foundations of the faith.
— J. Gresham Machen
We are not commissioned to retreat into our buildings to form holy huddles and talk about the good old days. In his omniscience, Jesus knew he was sending his followers into hostile territory. Nevertheless, he commanded them to go into the world (Matthew 28:18-19), be fishers of men (Mark 1:17), and tell people everywhere about him (Acts 1:8).
— Ed Stetzer
Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oh, stars, and dreams, and gentle night; Oh, night and stars, return! And hide me from the hostile light That does not warm, but burn - Stars
— Emily Bronte
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
— Philip Yancey