The church is not merely a roster of individuals who pray…

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has…

— Daniel Defoe

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

— Anonymous

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on…

— H. G. Wells

[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his hands. He…

— Pope Francis

So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.

— Michael Emerson

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

— Isaac of Nineveh

If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the…

— Parker J. Palmer

I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders...to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our…

— Keith Getty

Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the…

— Robert Farrar Capon

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't…

— Tony Campolo

To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be…

— Albert Einstein

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as…

— Anonymous

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.

— Gary North

The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the…

— D. Elton Trueblood