Quotes About Church

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

The church represents the people of God who are the real power of any nation

Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend their days and years conducting dust to dust rites in the burial grounds.

The Church is looking for better methods

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

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.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

A church that likes power likes prayer.

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..."

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.

The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.