Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!

Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith.

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.