"The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes."
- F.B. Meyer"The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God."
- Duncan Campbell
"The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world."
- Chuck Colson
"A man who covers up the cross though he may be an intellectual man, and draw large crowds will have no ilk there, and his church will be but a gilded sepulcher."
- Dwight L. Moody
"It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God."
- Wesley L. Duewel
"Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor."
- Lester Roloff
"Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men."
- E.M. Bounds
"The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. 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 slothfulness in prayer."
- Charles Spurgeon
T"he church does not draw people in; it sends them out."
- Chuck Colson
"In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful."
- Charles Spurgeon
"It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God."
- A. W. Tozer
"The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray."
- A. W. Tozer
"Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years."
- Francis Schaeffer
"Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches."
- Thomas Fuller
"The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of sync with the whole purpose of the Lord's house. "The atmosphere of my Father's
house," Jesus seemed to say, "is to be prayer. The aroma around my Father must be that of people opening their hearts in worship and supplication. This is not a place to make a buck. This is a house for calling on the Lord."
- Jim Cymbala
"14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ."
- Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 2
"14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ."
- Apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians 2