The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.” — Alexander Strauch Copy Share Image
Don’t allow the Internet to become your congregation. YouTube is a horrible place to go to church. — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The members of the congregation looked as though they’d just dropped in for a rest on the way to the grave.” — Åsa Larsson Copy Share Image
There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in… — Judson Cornwall Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I’ve sat… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have… — Gilbert Tennent Copy Share Image
Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's one denomination in particular, though, that has pushed very hard to be multiracial in its denomination - not only its denomination… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain" (I.E., even while living) "in the congregation of the dead.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of… — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.” — Steven J. Lawson Copy Share Image
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role… — Meredith Belbin Copy Share Image
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“But once a church reaches a certain size, it stabilizes. The building gets finished, cash flow firms up, and a core membership… — David Murrow Copy Share Image
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
