Quotes about Church
The church does not prey on the lost; it prays for the perishing.
- Billy Graham
If the church is acceptable to this present age and is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.
- Billy Graham
The Bible and the history of the church both demonstrate that God's way for the suffering of His people has not always been the way of escape, but the way of endurance.
- Billy Graham
The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.
- Billy Graham
Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending church may encourage someone who is searching for God.
- Billy Graham
Christ's church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.
- Billy Graham
When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously wrong. Because Christ runs counter to evil and because we are Christ-owned, we must also stand against evil.
- Billy Graham
Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.
- Billy Graham
The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.
- Billy Graham
No church is perfect, but don't let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!
- Billy Graham
The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ's body on earth.
- Billy Graham
We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world's ways that it is hard for many in the church to notice the sin much less answer how it crept in. The church is to be in the world, but worldliness is not to infiltrate the church.
- Billy Graham