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1. The whole fabric of Christianity stands or falls with its divine-human Founder; and if it can never perish, it is because Christ lives the same yesterday, today, and forever.
2. Preachers and laymen are each rowing different oars, but they are both in the same boat. When only one oar is being pulled, there is alot of splash but no progress. Let us see that both oars are being pulled.
3. Churches and chapels would not so often be empty if ministers would take heed what they preach as well as how they preach.
4. What is needed is thought, truth, and sound doctrine, and the Spirit of God. Young men are apt to think less of what to say than of how to say it; but our advice is, think of both in due proportion. Set the matter before the manner; get the horse first, and get a good one, and then harness him. Give the people the grand old Gospel, and plenty of it, and they will not much mind the way in which you bring it forth.
5. The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
6. "Everyone that hangs around the court does not speak with the king."
7. "As a fresh start, the church should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy."
8. "The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church."
9. "I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers."
10. "The church is the great lost and found department." Robert Short
11. "The church is in Christ as Eve was in Adam."
12. "Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults."
13. "A good example is like a bell that calls many to church."
14. "The empyrean heaven saved not the angels who in that heaven committed sin. The terrestrial Paradise saved not Adam, who in that paradise committed sin. And dost thou presume to hope in the Church for impunity of those evils which in the Church you perpetrate?"
15. "Today's church wants to be raptured from responsibility."
16. "Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own."
17. "By this may all know that we are not His disciples, because we hate one another."
18. "The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph."
19. "I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!"
20. "The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it."
21. "Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become unity conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life."
22. "The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil."
23. "One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always."
24. "Church attendance is a vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man."
25. "The bible knows nothing of solitary religion."
