There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in… — Judson Cornwall Copy Share Image
An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute,… — Ronnie Barker Copy Share Image
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role… — Meredith Belbin 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 cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God. — Eugene H. Peterson 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
The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may… — George Whitefield 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
I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation. — Loren C. Dunn Copy Share Image
So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The… — Mark Dever 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
Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image