I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within their congregations so that… — Frank Minis Johnson Copy Share Image
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
They could never go back to being a uniracial congregation again. It brings excitement. It brings life. It allows them to be… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Seventh-Gay Adventists isn't just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The word 'church' in the Bible is a mistranslation of the Greek word 'ekklesia.' The accurate translation is 'assembly' or 'congregation.' Literally… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
By the time I went to the pulpit, the vision was never on the same level as when God first gave it… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What do you mean by praying that God will have mercy upon all men, and save them with an everlasting salvation, and… — William Gadsby Copy Share Image
The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
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