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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord. -- Richard J. Foster
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 Ten Commandments. -- Randall Terry
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else. -- Amy Grant
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world. -- James Green Somerville
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation. -- Robert Rainy
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. -- Siobhan Fahey
I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community. -- Samuel Wilson
George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society. -- Matthew Stewart
As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this. -- John Ortberg
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. -- Jonathan Sacks
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. -- Mary Antin
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence. -- Ronnie Barker
Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. -- John James Audubon
When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God. -- Phil Jackson
Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto. -- John Ortberg
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. -- John Nelson Darby
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. -- Carl Bernstein
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another. -- Charles Spurgeon
A joyful congregation is an attractive congregation. -- T. B. Joshua
Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one. -- Sting
Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around. -- S. Robson Walton
Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around. -- S. Robson Walton
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner. -- Elsa Maxwell
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. -- Desiderius Erasmus
A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation. -- Tom Peters
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. -- Ambrose Bierce
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Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be. -- Pauley Perrette
Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on. -- Phil Pringle
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. -- Isaac of Nineveh
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God. -- Eugene H. Peterson
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something." -- Saint Francis de Sales
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
As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation. -- Adam Hamilton
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
A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation. -- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. -- Gary North
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord. -- Richard J. Foster
My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation. -- Jessie Sampter
I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building. -- Robert A. Schuller
A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit. -- Alistair Begg
Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration. -- Charles Spurgeon
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation. -- Daniel Defoe
Instead it is the Church hierarchy that is rather teaching congregation to be afraid of darkness, instead of teaching them to go with light to overcome darkness. -- Sunday Adelaja
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members. -- Meredith Belbin
Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't. -- Michael Emerson
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 and silent congregation. -- Stephen King
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government. -- Tony Campolo
Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are, you know, these are different cultural styles. -- Michael Emerson
I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become. -- Derwin L. Gray
The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me. -- Dwight Yoakam
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen. -- Michael Emerson
I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. -- Jim Wallis
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, joined by the bond of the covenant. -- Roger Sherman
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course. -- Rob Walton
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species. -- Antonio Lobo Antunes
Just preaching you are blessed to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Just preaching "you are blessed" to a congregation is like giving them a big fertile land. They need the seeds to plant on it; they need business ideas, a little of which is enough! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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 they found he was planting trees in his garden. -- Bertrand Russell
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. -- James Weldon Johnson
The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached. -- Meir Soloveichik
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited. -- Isa Bowman
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 show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines. -- Soren Kierkegaard

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