Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Albert Schweitzer

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

Reggie McNeal

Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

Joyce Carol Oates

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

Vance Havner

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Ellen G. White

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

David A. Bednar

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

Source Unknown

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.

E. B. White

The politicians have focused so much on the mega-churches in the county from a land use perspective until they have not looked at the contributions being made by the smaller churches. Our church has a partnership with Longfields Elementary where we provide textbooks, school supplies and even shoes for the children.

Eric Wallace

The pastor at my church says that in everything you say or do you're teaching someone else.

Nancy Gibbs

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

Richard Cecil

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Rick Pitino

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

Beck

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

Dan Stevens

I don't know much about my biological background.

Coco Lee

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

J. I. Packer

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Helen Thomas

I'm of Arab background.

Piper Perabo

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

Jodie Foster

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.