I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just… — Amy Grant 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
“Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from… — Anonymous 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
Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier… — Kennon Callahan 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
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also… — Eugene H. Peterson 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
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
Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay 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
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
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an… — Jessie Sampter Copy Share Image
Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
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
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce 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
“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
“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
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
