The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ’s church.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Church
When to expect revival – Billy Sunday
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
– Billy Sunday –
A demonstration of the supernatural – Duncan Campbell
The average man is not going to be impressed by our publicity, our posters or our programs, but let there be a demonstration of the supernatural in the realm of religion, and at once man is arrested.
– Duncan Campbell –
Does your church worship or entertain? – AW Tozer
A church that cannot worship must be entertained, and men who cannot lead a church to worship must provide entertainment.
– AW Tozer –
The Reason the Church Exists – CS Lewis
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
– CS Lewis –
A Minister Who Does Not Pray – Thomas Coke
A minister, who prays not, who is not in love with prayer, is not a minister of the Church of God. He is a dry tree, which occupies in vain a place in Christ’s garden. He is an enemy, and not a father, of the people. He is a stranger, who has taken the place of the shepherd, and to whom the salvation of the flock is an indifferent thing.
– Thomas Coke –
Church or Chapel – Martin Luther
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.
– Martin Luther –
Unity Needs Truth – John Trapp
Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy.
– John Trapp –
The Church and the World Can’t Jog Together – Catherine Booth
When the church and the world can jog comfortably along together, you can be sure something is wrong. The world has not compromised—its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was. If Christians were equally as faithful to the Lord, separated from the world, and living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did. It is the church that has compromised, not the world.
– Catherine Booth –