Quotes About Community

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

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

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

Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.

Give us this day our daily mask.

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

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.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

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..."

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

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.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.