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
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
So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. — William Shakespeare 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
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
“Jesus: I was nearly lynched by a mob made up of my hometown synagogue congregation.” — Rick Klaus Theis 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
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia.… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl… — Angela Carter 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
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save… — Rob Walton Copy Share Image
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his… — Anonymous 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
Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our… — James Montgomery Boice 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
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
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
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
Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But… — Michael Emerson 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
The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art… — Chris Ofili 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 hand that pockets the corrupt coin places it in the collection plate seeking absolution.” — Stewart Stafford 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
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.” — Steven J. Lawson 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
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
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll… — Anonymous 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
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And… — Tony Campolo 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
“In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.” — Alexander Strauch 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
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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