The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. — Karl Philipp Moritz
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
The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience. — Keith Getty
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
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. — Ralph Washington Sockman
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
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible. — Mark Dever
When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good. — Dolores Huerta
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church. — Charles Spurgeon
Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters. — Helmut Thielicke
Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord — Abdul-Qadir Gilani
There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ. — Judson Cornwall
Short Congregation Quotes
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare
Don’t allow the Internet to become your congregation. YouTube is a horrible place to go to church. — Albert Mohler
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee — John Donne
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching. — Leonard Ravenhill
A joyful congregation is an attractive congregation. — T. B. Joshua
Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations. — Wesley L Duewel
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity. — Bill Parcells
I consider myself more spiritual than religious. — Leonard Nimoy
Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around. — Rob Walton
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation. — Tom Peters
Congregation Image Quotes
Congratulations Quotes
Scott Bullett, as he takes left field, is getting congratulations from everybody. He and his daughter are parents of a new baby. — Harry Caray
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Harold Geneen
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Failure is success if we learn from it. — Malcolm Forbes
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. — Tony Robbins
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. — Og Mandino
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. — Elizabeth Taylor
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
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
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. — William Shakespeare
Prosperity Gospel”. At his United Church Science of Living Institute in New York he would tell his congregation “close your eyes and see green. Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a swimming pool. — Reverend Ike
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. Their house is not on fire. Your roses are, with aphids, which the ladybugs are feeding on - and you can bless yourself that they have come to your rescue. — Eleanor Perenyi
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
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . . — John Flavel
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 is the preaching of the Word that God most uses to build up a church, not only numerically but above all (and far more importantly) in spiritual depth and understanding of the people who make up the congregation. — James Montgomery Boice
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 at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners. — D. Elton Trueblood
The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children? — George Whitefield
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all. — Charles Hodge
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
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
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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'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
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
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
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them. — Gilbert Tennent
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. — Adam Hamilton
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. — Mignon McLaughlin
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate. — Norman Mailer
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories. — George Mackay Brown
What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found. — Chris Brogan
A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. — Maria Monk
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 thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It's sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church. — Laura Story
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 and sustain it. So apart from him, not only will there be no lively believers and no lively congregations, there will be no believers and no congregations at all. — J. I. Packer
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 a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God. — Oswald Chambers
I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the 'Will Rogers' of the Church, and told the congregation that he was a great humorist. When he got up he said, 'You know, I think the Lord himself likes a joke. If he didn't, he wouldn't have made some of you folks! — Hugh B. Brown
It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner. — Barbara Brown Taylor
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
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
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