Congregation Quotes
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Congregation Quotes & Sayings
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The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "deny yourself" congregation.
— Eugene H. Peterson
A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
— Ralph W. Sockman
Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
— Clementa C. Pinckney
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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
The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.
— Steven J. Lawson
Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15
— Calvin Miller
It is one of those nondenominational churches so busy not condemning anyone that it has little power to attract a steady congregation.
— Patricia Briggs
I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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
This second step calls one to yield to that local part of the Body of Christ, and to dedicate oneself to that congregation and its work.
— Peter Marshall
God, Benny, don't blow your nose like that in the church. You'd lift half the congregation out of their seats," Patsy warned.
— Maeve Binchy
If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.
— Carl R. Trueman
If anybody is left behind in a congregation of a thousand, the preacher has not preached well.
— Calvin Miller
Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.
— Pauley Perrette
Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 Foster
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
The only way to understand the Psalms is on your knees, the whole congregation praying the words of the Psalms with all its strength.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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
A joyful congregation is an attractive congregation.
— T. B. Joshua
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
A man centered gospel never speaks of Christ yet manages to leave a congregation screaming for more. This is strange to behold.
— Casey Johnson
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
— Karl Philipp Moritz
I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Lester was the obvious choice for pastor, I guess, since he'd sired half the congregation.
— Sam Torode
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain" (I.E., even while living) "in the congregation of the dead.
— Herman Melville
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
— Ambrose Bierce
The fetus was minute - a congregation of loitering cells - and as with anything that informal, there was a good chance that it might disperse.
— David Sedaris
The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.
— Gregory A. Boyd
The preaching of the Word to a prayerless congregation falls at the very feet of the preacher.
— E. M. Bounds
Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
— Leonard Ravenhill
In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.
— Alexander Strauch
Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.
— Phil Pringle
Don't allow the Internet to become your congregation. YouTube is a horrible place to go to church.
— Albert Mohler
The Christian faith has no category for believers who are not members of a local congregation.
— J. Mack Stiles
Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Her family half carried Terri Weedon back down the royal blue carpet, and the congregation averted its eyes.
— J.K. Rowling
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
Between Monday and Saturday men make an audience. On Sunday, they make a congregation.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
We are members of the Church of Christ
— Sunday Adelaja
