All CHARLES SPURGEON Quotes about “Church”

“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats”
“I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.”
“My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.”
“If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.”
“The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.”
“That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.”
“The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.”
“The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! â€œYou are the light of the world.â€”
“I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.”
“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.”
“Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.”
“In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.”
“If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.”
“Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.”
“If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.”
“Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord. Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.”
“If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.”
“Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christâ€™s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.”
“The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.”

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