Inspirational Quotes on Church

“All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up--you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.”

“It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.”

“Bible-believing churches and pastors could well apply this principle of pointing out faults without offending. We need to be careful that we do not let a carnal spirit divide us and hurt us so the Lord finds it difficult to use us.”

“It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath.”

“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”

“Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.”

“Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world.”

“Everyone that hangs around the court does not speak with the king.”

“A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.”

“Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.”

“The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints.”

“Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.”

“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”

“Church members too often expect service and never think of giving it.”

“I heard of a man who said to the preacher, "I want to sing in your choir." The preacher replied, "But you don't belong here. Where do you have your membership?" He said, "I don't belong to any local church. I belong to the invisible church." The pastor said, "Then I suggest that you join the invisible choir."”

“The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.”

“There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.”

“The local church is espoused to Christ, but there is always the danger of that love growing cold. Like Martha, we can be so busy working for Christ that we have no time to love Him. Christ is more concerned about what we do with Him than for Him. Labor is no substitute for love. To the public, the Ephesian church was successful; to Christ, it had fallen.”

“It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.”

“The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.”