Congregation Quotes

Congregation Quote of the day

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.

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.

Don’t allow the Internet to become your congregation. YouTube is a horrible place to go to church.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

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.

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.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

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.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

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.

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.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

A joyful congregation is an attractive congregation.

There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

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.

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.

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

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.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

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.

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

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.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

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.

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

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.

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.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

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.

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.

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

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.

Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.

We are members of the Church of Christ

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel for everyone to view!