To be among God’s people is heaven itself.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
A Christian Church
May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the faint-hearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.
— Martin Luther
Attending Church
Never neglect the means of grace; God may bless us when we are not in His house, but we have the greater reason to hope that He will when we are in communion with His saints.
— C. H. Spurgeon
The Church of God
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
— John Calvin
Church’s Indifference
I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master’s heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world’s iniquity but the church’s indifference.
— F. B. Meyer