When the Church and the world can jog comfortably together, you may be sure there is something wrong. The world has not altered. Its spirit is exactly the same as it ever was, and if Christians were equally faithful and devoted to the Lord, and separated from the world, living so that their lives were a reproof to all ungodliness, the world would hate them as much as it ever did.
– Catherine Booth –
Today, we are living in desperate times. Yet, the Church is not desperate before God in prayer.
– Chuck Smith –
Preachers used to sow seed; now they string intellectual pearls.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
– AW Tozer –
We are not going to organize something for God to bless.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.
– Charles Spurgeon –
The Church had never such influence over the world as in the days when she had nothing to do with the world.
– LE Maxwell –
Prairie Pastor issue number 1, January 1928
Christ’s church is a hospital of sick, wounded, and afflicted people.
– John Bunyan –
But have we Holy Spirit power—power that restricts the devil’s power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil’s dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
– Leonard Ravenhill –