On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my… — Charles Dickens 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
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
If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce 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
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
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
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
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
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
As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical… — Adam Hamilton 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'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
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
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare 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
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
