Quotes about Church
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
— Jim Cymbala
The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.
— David Jeremiah
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
— Vance Havner
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
— Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
— Martin Luther
The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."
— Jim Cymbala
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