Here are some of my favorite quotes about how precious and how wonderful the Church can and should be. I hope it stimulates some deeper thinking about your relationship to the Church and why you feel the way you do.  

Famous Church Quotes The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock. – T.S. Eliot Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. – Martin Luther Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man. – Dwight L. Moody The perfect church service, would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.- C.S. Lewis “Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.”- John Calvin Bible Quotes About Church Matthew 16:18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Acts 2:47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. Acts 20:28  Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. 1 Corinthians 12:5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; Ephesians 1:22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, Ephesians 2:20-22 built on the foundation of theapostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,  in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. Hebrews 3:6 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. Hebrews 10:25  not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Church from Christian’s perspective I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church. – Joel Osteen “I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers.”- C. S. Lewis “You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be a slumbering noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”- Charles Spurgeon “What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.”- E. M. Bounds “I lack the fervency, vitality, life, in prayer which I long for. I know that many consider it fanaticism when they hear anything which does not conform to the conventional, sleep-inducing eulogies so often rising from Laodicean lips; but I know too that these same people can acquiescently tolerate sin in their lives and in the church without so much as tilting one hair of their eyebrows.”-Jim Eliot “One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.“- A. W. Tozer