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
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 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
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
“Jesus: I was nearly lynched by a mob made up of my hometown synagogue congregation.” — Rick Klaus Theis Copy Share Image
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and… — James Green Somerville 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
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
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
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share.… — Shane Claiborne 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
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
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
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
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
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
If the divine Logos of God the Father became son of man and man so that He might make men gods and… — Maximus the Confessor 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
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
You know, the one thing that expository preaching does that is apart from the congregation is it sanctifies the pastor. — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
“The church is not merely a roster of individuals who pray privately; it is a congregation that ought to pray together.” — Megan Hill Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something." — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Without meaning to, you usually end up with a board made up of the richer members of the congregation.” — Harry Kemelman Copy Share Image
“It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image