The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations. — Wesley L Duewel Copy Share Image
They should replace the lines of demarcation with lines of congregation — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The hand that pockets the corrupt coin places it in the collection plate seeking absolution.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Jesus: I was nearly lynched by a mob made up of my hometown synagogue congregation.” — Rick Klaus Theis Copy Share Image
Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation… — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
“My people? Who are they? I went into the church where the congregation Worshiped my God. Were they my people? I felt… — Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Copy Share Image
Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
When I had something I thought God was talking to me about, the first thing I did, before I ever talked to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and… — Thomas G. Long Copy Share Image
How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It's one of the things we find in these congregations is that they are much more likely to be sort of up-beat… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“About the same time I came in contact with another Christian family. At their suggestion I attended the Wesleyan church every Sunday.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation. — Loren C. Dunn Copy Share Image
In many churches today the congregation rules the leaders. This sort of government is foreign to the New Testament. — John Macarthur Copy Share Image