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
Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by… — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
My dad was a non-denominational preacher, actually a Congregationalist which is really where all congregations come to congregate. That's why it's called… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and… — John Jay Chapman 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
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
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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
When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Seventh-Gay Adventists isn't just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He… — Anonymous 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've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain 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
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
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
To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what… — Dan Mazer 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
I love New York. It's made me realize that God's a lot bigger than I thought he was. It's a really interesting… — Jay Bakker Copy Share Image
People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
I have no respect for the right-to-life position. But when you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. The… — John Irving Copy Share Image
So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course,… — 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
I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so,… — John Middendorf 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
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
When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
