The true man of God is heartsick. He is . . .
grieved at the worldliness of the Church,
grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church,
grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell.
– Charles Spurgeon –
It’s a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in hell.
– John R. Rice –
Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
– Billy Sunday –
God nowhere asks anyone to have a large church. He only calls us to do his work, proclaiming his Word to people he loves under anointing power of the Holy Spirit to produce results that only he can bring about.
– Jim Cymbala –
At this grim hour, the world sleeps in the darkness — and the Church sleeps in the light.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The best title of the professing church of God today, in my judgment, is “Unbelieving Believers.” There’s cancer in the church …
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ’s Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.
– John R. Mott –
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful adjustment to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
– AW Tozer –