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Quotes About Church

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 Haddon 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 Haddon Spurgeon
All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
~ Duffy Daugherty
The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
~ Dallas Willard
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.
~ Jim Cymbala
No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.
~ Steven J Lawson
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
~ Andy Murray
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.
~ 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 S. 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.
~ J. C. 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.
~ Saint Augustine
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
~ C. S. Lewis
The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.
~ David Wilkerson
She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.
~ Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.
~ Monica Johnson
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
~ Jonathan Swift
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
~ Carl E. Olson