Decline Quotes

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.

Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.