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• I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

  R. C. Sproul

  Life Changing, Believe, Thinking

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• Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Firsts, Believer

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• We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mother, Baby, Needs

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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Moving, Church Life

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• The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Fighting, Errors, Numbers

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• We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Thinking, Expression

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.23, David C Cook

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• The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

  Philip Sidney

  Rich, Poor, Wells

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• Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Failure, Humor

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• The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

  James Carville

  Abortion, Catholic, Different

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• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ornaments, Able, Praise

  "Media and Popular Music". Book by Peter Mills (p. 1997), May 16, 2012.

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• Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

  Billy Sunday

  Home, Hypocrite, Mirrors

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  A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Museums, Religion, Saint

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• An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Laughter, Men, Evil

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.716, Discovery House

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• In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

  Timothy Keller

  Transparent

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• People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  People, Religion, Atheism

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• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

  Billy Sunday

  Funny, Hilarious, Christian

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

  Mike Bickle

  Church Service, Twenties, Way

  Mike Bickle (2013). “After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You”, p.3, Charisma Media

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• Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

  N. T. Wright

  Kingdoms, Spirit, Without God

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• The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Vices, World, Sin

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• Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ

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• May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Want

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

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• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Believe, Scary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

  William Faulkner

  Inward, Bells, Destroying

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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