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 –
One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
– AB Simpson –
Playing marbles with diamonds, thats what we are doing in the church today.
– Vance Havner –
They will pay $15 for a Christian concert to hear a Christian singer and for free they won’t come into the presence of God and call upon the name of the Lord.
– Jim Cymbala –
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
– David Livingstone –
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God’s name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
– Vance Havner –
The mission of the church is missions.
– Oswald J. Smith –
If I am concerned that my flock be men and women of prayer, then, as their pastor, I must lead the way; apathy in me will produce apathy in them. The church prayer meeting ought to be the best attended in the week, and if it is, success will follow the ministry of the Word at the weekends. I would rather a thousand times set men and women to pray than teach them to preach.
– JD Drysdale –
Accountability without real accountability is not true accountability.
– Joseph Mockler –
