J. Gordon Melton quotes

“It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.”
-- J. Gordon Melton

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“When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group”
-- J. Gordon Melton

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“As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion...”
-- J. Gordon Melton

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“Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.”
-- J. Gordon Melton

Source : J. Gordon Melton (1978). “The Encyclopedia of American Religions”

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“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”

“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.”

“I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.”

“We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.”