Charles Spurgeon Church Quotations

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

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.

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

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.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

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.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

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! “You are the light of the world.”

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.

If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

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.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats