Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
