Quotes about Church

When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. —F. LINCICOME

For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.

The ugly fact is that altar fires are either out or burning very low. The prayer meeting is dead or dying. By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. What church ever asks its candidating ministers what time they spend in prayer? Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness, and the Church sleeps in the light;

Is life's span so dear and are home comforts so engrossing as to be purchased with my unfaithfulness and dry-eyed prayerlessness? At the final bar of God, shall the perishing millions accuse me of materialism coated with a few Scripture verses? ''Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, GIVE ME REVIVAL in my soul and in my church and in my nation—or GIVE ME DEATH!