Assault Quote by Ambrose

“However, before long, you find it has always happened that the low tide returns. The ocean of grace seemed to recede; the Church was…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but…

— Saint Boniface

The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“The Church will endure until the end of time. We have the Word of God on that. But how and where she survives is…

— Charles J. Chaput

“There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing. The persecutions buffeting the…

— Blaise Pascal

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

— Hilaire Belloc

The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly…

— Anonymous

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see…

— C. S. Lewis

“The truth is that the greatest enemy of the Western church is not the state or any ideology such as atheism, but the world…

— Os Guinness

“The Church pleaseth it selfe too much which scorns and disdaines other Churches, as unworthy of her Communion, for some weakness in their understanding,…

— John Davenant