I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders...to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
“The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I certainly think so, and I argue so, and I give talks on that. Are there risks by putting people together? Absolutely.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so,… — John Middendorf Copy Share Image
When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls.… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church… — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
“[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I don't have any complaints about homosexuals being married in a civil ceremony. But I don't think that the government ought to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“A congregation that does not pray for the ministry of its pastor,” Bonhoeffer warns, “is no longer a congregation.”11 He then adds, “A… — Stephen J. Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the… — James Alison Copy Share Image
Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
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