Congregation Quotes

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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 Spirit can initiate… — J I Packer
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him,… — Roger Sherman
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the… — Randall Terry
To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince… — Oswald Chambers
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has â€˜set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.â€™ After all the years… — Robert Farrar Capon
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh
The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children? — George Whitefield
I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when… — Bertrand Russell
I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders...to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our congregation's… — Keith Getty
A joyful congregation is an attractive congregation. — T. B. Joshua
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home.… — Eleanor Perenyi
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
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary,… — Pope Pius XII
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God. — Eugene H. Peterson
Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our day, but it… — James Montgomery Boice
A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church… — D. Elton Trueblood
The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the… — Winston Churchill
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great… — Stephen King

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