Quote by A. W. Tozer

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.


One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful o

Summary

This quote highlights the idea that a church or any organized group cannot be built solely on structure and organization alone. It emphasizes that true unity and purpose stem from vitality and an active participation of individuals. The presence of life, both figuratively and potentially literally, within a group is essential for it to truly function and thrive. Mere numbers or an organized framework are insufficient if there is no genuine spirit or engagement present amongst the members. Life, metaphorically representative of enthusiasm, faith, and commitment, is the fundamental prerequisite for a community or institution to qualify as a church or accomplish its intended purpose effectively.

Topics

Religion
By A. W. Tozer
Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.

John Henry Newman, Idea of a Uni