Congregation Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Fashion, Singing, Influence

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be there on Sunday morning - I just sit there in a pew with my wife, that's all I do, but I'm very much a part of that congregation. We've got a fantastic rector,she brings in people from places like the United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, where you've got good teaching, and our people are being introduced to great material and they really respond. They're able to believe without crossing their fingers. And I think that's a real step forward.

  John Shelby Spong

  Morning, Real, Teaching

  Fuente: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I don't have any complaints about homosexuals being married in a civil ceremony. But I don't think that the government ought to require religious organizations, churches, should perform marriages between homosexuals if a local congregation decides otherwise. I believe in the autonomy of individual churches.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religioso, Creer, Pensar

  Fuente: www.christianpost.com

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• Tengo una tía centenaria que aspira a la santidad, y cuyo único deseo ha sido entrar en el convento, pero ninguna congregación, ni siquiera las Hermanitas de la Caridad, podrían tolerarla más de unas semanas, así que la familia ha tenido que ocuparse de ella. Créanme, no hay nada tan insufrible como un santo, no le echaría uno ni a mi peor enemigo.

  Isabel Allende

  Creer, Tía, Peor Enemiga

  Isabel Allende (2003). "Mi país inventado: memorias", HarperPerennial

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• I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

  Andrew Solomon

  Madre, Hijos, Actitud

  Fuente: andrewsolomon.com

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• The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Luxury, Doubt, Tribes

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• Era uno de esos hombres que, incluso en los años de paz, habría aconsejado a su congregación que si bien Dios puede ser honrado por la inflexibilidad de los piadosos, también puede ser honrado por la flexibilidad de los sensatos.

  Thomas Keneally

  Men, Years, May

  Thomas Keneally (1993). “Schindler's List”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Cuando vamos a entrar en el agua... en presencia de la congregación y bajo la mano del presidente, profesamos solemnemente que renegamos del diablo, de su pompa y de sus ángeles. Después de esto nos sumergimos tres veces, haciendo una promesa algo mayor que la que el Señor designó en el Evangelio. A continuación se nos toma en brazos [referencia a la tradición romana de reconocer a un recién nacido como miembro de la familia]. Primero probamos una mezcla de leche y miel y desde ese día nos abstenemos del baño diario durante toda una semana.

  Tertuliano

  Bebé, Tomado, Ángel

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• 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.

  Isa Bowman

  Time, Boys, Conceited

  Isa Bowman (1900). “The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman”

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• Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.

  Karl Barth

  Church, Matter, Barbarians

  Karl Barth (2005). “God In Action: Theological Addresses”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Taken, People, May

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “A Guide to Confident Living”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.

  Katherine Paterson

  Dream, School, Thinking

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah.

  Michael Emerson

  Giving Up, White, African American

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Michael Emerson

  Leader, Style, Important

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.

  Michael Emerson

  White, Average, Europe

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Michael Emerson

  Giving, Black, Speech

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

  Michael Emerson

  People, Speak, Company

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• So one of the profound things we found when studying these congregations, the mixed ones, is just how much overlap and interracial ties that develop not only with the people in the congregation, but they start meeting each other's families, and their friends, and they go to each other's neighborhoods if they live in different neighborhoods, and at work they meet people they wouldn't otherwise met, and so it creates a whole new definition of what the group is.

  Michael Emerson

  Ties, Profound, People

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Cuando pones verdad bíblica a las canciones usadas en las iglesias, tendrás a la congregación saliendo cantando el sermón. Tendrán los pensamientos de Dios, cosas inspiradas por Dios, metidas en sus cabezas. Es triste pensar en una melodía muy pegadiza combinada con mala teología, porque eso podría, honestamente, hacer mucho daño en la iglesia.

  Laura Story

  Canción, Bíblica, Pensamiento

  "'La guerra del cambio climático' no es una metáfora". Entrevista con Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. 18 de abril de 2014.

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• Creo que antes se consideraba que el pastor era el único que se ocupaba de todo. El pastor participaba en todos los comités, se ofrecía voluntario en todos los eventos y hacía todas las visitas al hospital. Creo que eso está cambiando y que es saludable. Tanto para el pastor como para la congregación.

  Mark Batterson

  Pasado, Pensamiento, Saludable

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• There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Waiting, Acting, Obedience

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1856). “A pastor's sketches: or, Conversations with anxious inquirers respecting the way of salvation. With an intr. and ed. notes, by J.A. James”, p.23

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• Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Doctors, Faithful, Ridiculous

  "Knowledge of Hell". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

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• No permitas que Internet se convierta en tu congregación. YouTube es un lugar horrible para ir a la iglesia.

  Albert Mohler

  Church, Places To Go, Internet

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• Puede que la ciencia haya avanzado mucho, pero en lo que respecta a la religión, somos primos hermanos de los !Kung del desierto de Kalahari. Excepto por las vestimentas, sus profundos trances religiosos podrían tener lugar en una reunión de avivamiento o en la congregación de un predicador fundamentalista de la televisión .... A medida que nos alejamos de la vida de ignorancia y superstición en la que la religión tiene sus raíces, parece que la necesitamos cada vez más.... ¿Por qué la religión se ha convertido en una fuerza justo cuando pensábamos que perdería terreno frente al secularismo?

  Phil Donahue

  Religious, Cousin, Moving

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• Sin embargo, tenemos este curioso espectáculo: todos los días el loro amaestrado en el púlpito se entrega gravemente a estas ironías, que ha adquirido de segunda mano y adoptado sin examinarlas, a una congregación amaestrada que las acepta sin examinarlas, y ni el orador ni el oyente se ríen de sí mismos. Parece como si debiéramos ser humildes cuando estamos en un banco de exhibición, y no darnos aires de superioridad intelectual allí.

  Mark Twain

  Humilde, Aire, Manos

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). "Mark Twain's Fables of Man", p.115, Univ of California Press

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