David Ogilvy Quotes

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

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

I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

I don't attend [church] regularly.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.