May 1

On Church: Purity

Do what we may, Judas will come in; but let us not invite him: let us not make it easy for a betrayer of Christ to be comfortable with us. AM311

To introduce unconverted persons to the church is to weaken and degrade it; and therefore an apparent gain may be a real loss. SW13

Some of the most glaring sinners known to me were once members of a church; and were, as I believe, led to make a profession by undue pressure, well-meant but ill-judged. SW15

Great attempts have been made of late to make the church receive the world and wherever it has succeeded it has come to this result—the world has swallowed up the church. TN129