Congregation Quotes - Page 4

• No me gusta la resurrección tardía de los jesuitas. . . . Si alguna vez una congregación de hombres pudo merecer la perdición eterna en la tierra, y en el infierno, según estos historiadores, aunque, como Pascal, verdaderos católicos, es esta compañía de Loyolas.

  John Adams

  Men, Catholic, Earth

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.219

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

  Sting

  Crazy, Men, Get Better

  Sting (2011). “Sting - Easy Piano Collection (Songbook)”, p.9, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I think it's easier, I really do, because of not having that similar history, so that's why I think two-thirds of these mixed congregations are either white with Asian and Hispanic, or black with Asian and Hispanic.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, White, Two

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Drama, People, Actors

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• I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I’ve sat across the table from people who were - were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, People, Tough Times

  Mitt Romney at the Second Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Puertas, Derecho, Dar

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• There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?"

  Michael Emerson

  People, Snow, Wonder

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial congregations, whites will just dominate then. There are so many more of them, and they're used to being in the position of power. So they'll just take over, and we'll lose the one thing we do have.

  Michael Emerson

  Moving, Position Of Power, Black

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Thinking, Imagination, Meals

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

  Desiderio Erasmo

  Church Music, Modern, Music Is

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• La atención de la congregación es una parte importante de la atención que el pastor presta a su discurso. Es muy excepcional. No conozco a nadie que no disfrute con un buen sermón. Las personas que no tienen nada de religiosas reconocen un buen sermón cuando lo oyen.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Pasado, Gente, Dar

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and didn't feel that warmly received. But so - and there are different realities either way, and it makes it difficult for all groups to try and cross boundaries.

  Michael Emerson

  Reality, White, Trying

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Names, Stones, Lord

  Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• Un equipo no es un grupo de personas con cargos, sino una congregación de individuos, cada uno de los cuales tiene una función que es comprendida por los demás miembros.

  Meredith Belbin

  Trabajo en equipo, Empleo, Personas

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• If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Pedestal, Easy

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• Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a divided people to the united congregation of Jewish power at a difficult time in the nation's history. This argument alone is so persuasive as to warrant the discarding of democracy in favor of anything that would ensure our unity - or life itself. For disunity means death.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Hate, Party, Mean

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• Seventh-Gay Adventists isn't just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully with the issue of homosexuality. It's also a beautifully-filmed and artfully-conceived movie. It does what the best art does - it 'humanizes the other.' You should see it, and when you do, you'll encourage others to see it as well.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Art, Gay, Issues

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• No olvidemos que la democracia estadounidense empezó con "Nosotros el pueblo" acordando trabajar duro para crear "una unión más perfecta". Hemos perdido la idea de que la política empieza en casa, con lo que ocurre en las familias, en los barrios, en las aulas, en las congregaciones. Nosotros creamos esta democracia, y si queremos que esta democracia recupere sus valores más elevados, tenemos que ser nosotros quienes lo hagamos. Eso no sucederá si "Nosotros, el pueblo" no sabemos cómo hablar entre nosotros con civismo y mantener nuestras diferencias de forma creativa y vivificante.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Trabajo, Hogar, Ideas

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• 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

  Men, Reason Why, Christ

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• If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Justice, Logos

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• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

  J. I. Packer

  Complaining, Today, Ministers

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• Cristo [es] la esencia misma de todos los deleites y placeres, el alma misma y la sustancia de ellos. Como todos los ríos se reúnen en el océano, que es congregación o lugar de reunión de todas las aguas del mundo: así Cristo es ese océano en el que se reúnen todas las delicias y placeres verdaderos. . . .

  John Flavel

  Ocean, Essence, Rivers

  John Flavel (1699). “The Method of Grace in Bringing Home the Eternal Redemption ... Being the Second Part of Gospel Redemption: Wherein the Great Mystery of Our Union and Communion with Christ is Opened and Applied ...”, p.238

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spiritual, Science, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.91, 谷月社

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• Evangelio de la prosperidad". En su Instituto de la Ciencia de la Vida de la Iglesia Unida en New York le decía a su congregación "cierren los ojos y vean verde. Dinero hasta las axilas, una habitación llena de dinero y ahí estás tú, dando vueltas en él como en una piscina.

  Reverendo Ike

  New York, Eye, Swimming

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• En las tardes de verano, cuando todas las flores, árboles y pájaros podrían haberse dirigido mejor a mi tierno y joven corazón, en mis días he sido cogido por la coronilla con la palma de una mano femenina, he sido violentamente restregado desde el cuello hasta la raíz del cabello como purificación para el Templo, y luego he sido llevado cargado de electricidad saponácea, para ser cocido al vapor como una patata en el aliento sin ventilación del poderoso Boanerges Boiler y su congregación, hasta que la pequeña mente que tenía, fue totalmente vaporizada.

  Charles Dickens

  Divertido, Verano, Potente

  Charles Dickens (1870). "Novelas", p.57

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