Arise Quote by Mark Dever

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

— Swami Vivekananda

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

— Tom Waits

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is…

— Martin Luther

The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our…

— Francis Chan

When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is…

— Alan Hirsch

Power corrupts. If the Church is given too much power, it will become corrupted. So to keep the Church in line with the teachings…

— Ali Sina

“It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ’s own. The church is the human being who has become…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense,…

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Generally speaking, the reason the church fails to have a more positive, transforming influence on our culture is that we do not fully grasp…

— Philip Graham Ryken

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

— R. C. Sproul