Cease to exist Quote by Jonathan Roumie

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

— Arthur Judson

The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.

— Greg Laurie

You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the…

— David Yonggi Cho

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It…

— S. D Gordon

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

— Lemuel K. Washburn

If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms…

— Doris Janzen Longacre

The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective…

— Harry Blamires

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

— Lee Roberson

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

— Alexander Duff

The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign…

— Pope John Paul II

The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

— F.B. Meyer