Quotes about Adaptation

I will park my pride and dip into the lake again

Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

I have changed drastically because I allow myself to not just grieve and feel down.

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.