We end up blaming God’s sovereignty for the sad state of the church. If there is no revival in the church, we can be very sure that the lack is on our part and not God’s!
– Al Whittinghill –
Church
Praying is Foreign – Leonard Ravenhill
Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Churchgoers Are Like Coals in a Fire – Billy Graham
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
– Billy Graham –
Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church – Tertullian
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
– Tertullian –
(160-225 AD)
We Are Playing Church – Nancy Leigh DeMoss
We are playing church. We are so busy trying to be relevant to the world that we have become just like the world. … AND the world is not impressed.
– Nancy Leigh DeMoss –
Change the World – Eric Ludy
We are called to change the world, not be changed by the world.
– Eric Ludy –
The Church and the Christian – AW Tozer
We must not think of the Church as an anonymous body, a mystical religious abstraction. We Christians are the Church and whatever we do is what the Church is doing. The matter, therefore, is for each of us a personal one. Any forward step in the Church must begin with the individual.
– AW Tozer –
When the Church and World 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 –
Playing Marbles With Diamonds – Vance Havner
Playing marbles with diamonds, that’s what we are doing in the church today.
– Vance Havner –