Church Quote by Ralph Vaughan Williams Download Open image “Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?” — Ralph Vaughan Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Concerts Halls Inheritance Should Wells
As a church, we have a moral and religious obligation to continue allowing our congregants to gather in our sanctuary to worship the Lord. — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“I’d never believed musicians should be paid by the church. Their roles are vital, but so are the ushers and nurses who keep a… — Love Belvin Copy Share Image
I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a… — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in the church… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Two years of close association with some of the best (as well as some of the worst) tunes in the world was a better… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001. — Anthea Butler Copy Share
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not Christianity but rather the kingdom of God. ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image