Quotes about Community
The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
— Jim Cymbala
We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
— Charles Spurgeon
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
— Vance Havner
There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
— Charles Spurgeon
From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.
— John Mott
One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
— William Carey
The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."
— Jim Cymbala
This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
— Leonard Ravenhill