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
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the… — Michael Emerson 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
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
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
“[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What do you mean by praying that God will have mercy upon all men, and save them with an everlasting salvation, and… — William Gadsby Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne 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
I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
I don't have any complaints about homosexuals being married in a civil ceremony. But I don't think that the government ought to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders...to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put… — Keith Getty 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
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed… — James Weldon Johnson 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
The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls.… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are… — James Green Somerville 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
Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We're going to see more, and we are seeing more, and I'll tell you exactly why. Not because white and black are… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
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