Quotes about Church
This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
- Leonard Ravenhill
The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.
- Martin Luther
Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!
- Charles Spurgeon
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
- Charles Spurgeon
The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
- Leonard Ravenhill
The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.
- Maude Royden
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
- Thomas Monson
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
- JC Ryle
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
- St. Augustine
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
- CS Lewis