24 Congregation Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Life Walls Community Our Part Calling Within Condition Just Which Congregation Resides

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

Heart Experience Emotions Old Human Heart Old Songs Spell Musical Religious Thrilling Never Songs Missed Most Sing Heard Fervor Person Any May Human Which Congregation Who

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

Amazing Country Churches Percent Ten Ten Commandments Over Knows Years Commandments Any Congregation Speaking Teaching Traveled

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

Bible Science Preach Every Neither Week Policy Am Nor Textbook Pastor Public Teach Congregation Manufacturer Public Policy

The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage. Anthea Butler

Bible Challenges Marriage Training Decision Marriages Allow Perform New Come Clergy Opposed Denomination Discretion Pastors Same-Sex Same-Sex Marriage Congregation Who Grounds Fundamentally Poses

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

Faith Carefully John Staying John Paul Only Through Had Exchanging Written Joseph Advantage Days Doctrine Issues His Cupboard Paul Congregation Speaking Views Pope Publicly Cardinal

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

Speak First Ought Once Promised Collection Sung Favour Hymns Argue Never Volume He Him Another Acceptable Because Prove Been Heard Did Forgive Inflict Anyone Grandfather Should Congregation Publishing Second

As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny's preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind not unlike a bloodhound's, excoriating the congregation and condemning it to hell. Dana Loesch

Remember Wind Hell Unlike Spending Waving Kid Shaking Weekends Condemning His Fist Preacher Granny Congregation

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church. Eugene Kennedy

Faith Church Example Big Style Further Pundits Claimed Rather Head Term Stunning Doctrine Surprise His Years German Legacy Formation Informed Theology Congregation Pope Many Professor Resignation Buzz

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious. Leonard Nimoy

Myself Spiritual Wife Consider Religious Admire Temple Angeles More Feel Talk Him Cousin Los Los Angeles Affiliated Greatly Very Close Than Happens Rabbi Congregation Regularly Who Here

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

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

History Honored Distinguished Some Most Am Israel Been Preached America Where Asked Congregation Serve Incomparable Deeply Humbled

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden. Natasha Trethewey

Crime Perception Borders Simply Because Within Were Referred Up North Little Vietnam Congregation Growing Growing Up

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

Love Church Christian Favorite Am Place Personally Congregation

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around. Rob Walton

Life Other Way Gives Around His Congregation Jesus

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

Today Music Silence Jokes Old Fans Out Tribute Fred Minutes Had Comedian Read Hall Were Vicar Old Music Congregation Many Oldest Present Funeral Britain Two

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part. Rudolf Steiner

Architecture World Wish Rise Something Gives Individual Part Gothic Enclosed Craftsmanship Wherein Create Requires Congregation Activity Need Plays

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