1.  I can think of some churches that would be even emptier if the gospel were preached in them.  (W.R. Inge)

2.  There are some churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them they wouldn’t find it out for many months.  (A.W. Tozer)

3.  Christ is the King of the church, and the church is the greatest queen in the world.  (William Gurnall)

4  If we ever forget our basic charter – “My house is a house of prayer” – we may as well shut the church doors.  (J.S. Stewart)

5.  Every church should be engaged in continual self-reformation.  (John Stott)

6.  The church has many critics but no rivals.  (Anon)

7.  If it were not for the church, Satan would have already turned this world into hell.  (Paul Billheimer)

8.  ‘Don’t stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites.  There’s always room for one more.’  (A.R. Adams)

9.  No man can withdraw himself from the stated religious services of the community of which he is a member, without serious injury to his personal religious life.  (Warfield, Shorter Writings I, 418)

10. People are driven from the Church not so much by stern truth that makes them uneasy as by weak nothings that make them contemptuous.  (George Buttrick)

11. Mark Twain said once that the church is a place where a nice respectable person stands in front of other nice, respectable people and urges them to be nicer and more respectable.