Unite with a church that has a real active interest in the salvation of the lost, where young Christians are looked after and helped, where minister and people have a love for the poor and outcast, a church that regards its mission in the world to seek and save the lost.”
—R. A. Torrey
We should confess Christ constantly. We should not be ashamed of our Lord and King. We should let people know that we are on His side. In the home, in the church, at our work, and at our play, we should let others know where we stand.
—R. A. Torrey
Unite with a church where they believe in the Bible and where they preach the Bible. Avoid the churches where words are spoken, open or veiled, that have a tendency to undermine your faith in the Bible as a reliable revelation from God, the only rule of faith and practice.
—R. A. Torrey
Unite with a church where there is a spirit of prayer, where the prayer-meetings are well kept up.
—R. A. Torrey
Not only is the whole course of history known to God, and His purpose for the Church made plain, but what he has decreed will most certainly come to pass.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
God himself appears in our midst, and, as Author of this order, would have men recognize him as present in his church ~ Calvin
There is no perfect church. If you wait until you find a perfect church before you unite with any, you will unite with none, and thus you will belong to a church in which you are the only member, and that is the most imperfect church of all.
—R. A. Torrey
For those to whom God is Father, the church may also be Mother ~ Calvin (Institutes 4:1:1)
The church stands by God’s election, and cannot waver or fail any more than his eternal providence can ~ Calvin
If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If we are not more concerned for the purity of the Church than with the fact that we are faced by the possibility of another war, that is a serious reflection upon our Christianity.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The church is made up men and women, imperfect men and women, and consequently it is an imperfect institution, but none the less it is of divine origin and God loves it, and every believer should realize that he belongs to it and should openly take his place in it.
—R. A. Torrey
Go to your pastor and ask him if there is some work he would like to have you do for him in the church. Be a person that your pastor can depend upon.
—R. A. Torrey
The spirit of “Who shall be the greatest?” is still one of the greatest hindrances to the church of God today – the endeavor to win for ourselves honor and esteem.
—D. L. Moody
The essential principle is that history can be understood only in terms of God’s kingdom-that is, the rule of God in the world as a whole and including the Church.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“The world never helps the church; it is all in arms against it; there is nothing in the world’s air or soil that can fertilise the church even to the least degree.”
Truth is the most sovereign ingredient for curing the nation and church.
Christopher Love
“The best church that ever Christ had on earth would within a few years apostatise from the truth if deserted by the Spirit of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Behold, the church is Christ’s Eden, watered by the river of life, and so fertilized that all manner of fruits are brought forth unto God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The church is a divine institution, built by Jesus Christ Himself. It is the one institution that abides. Other institutions come and go; they do their work for the day and disappear, but the church will continue to the end.
—R. A. Torrey
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
True religion needs no churches. Church religion is slavery.
—Leo Tolstoy
The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.
—John Owen
The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.
—John Owen
When it is time to choose officers in the church, there should be no consideration of a man’s estate, but of spiritual power.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Purity of religion in the church cannot stand long with slavery admitted in the state.
—Jeremiah Burroughs