 The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe. Author: R.C. Sproul |
| Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist. Author: Bono |
| We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. Author: David F. Wells |
| Those who attend churches are now like any other customers you might meet in the mall. Displease them in any way and they will take their business elsewhere. That is the fear that lurks in many a church leader's soul because they know that is how the marketplace works. Author: David F. Wells
Source: The Courage to be Protestant |
| The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven. Author: Adrian Rogers |
| 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. Author: Walter J. Chantry
Source: The Shadow of the Cross - Studies in Self-Denial |
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| Divisions in the church always breed atheism in the world. Author: Thomas Manton |
| A church doesn't necessarily need space to grow; it just needs the power of God. Author: Jack Hyles |
| The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible. Author: Lester Roloff |
| Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor. Author: Lester Roloff |
| The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in many of our churches. Author: D.L. Moody |
| Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over. Author: Billy Sunday |
