Quotes about ushers (16 Quotes)


    It is through individual efforts with the invaluable assistance of organizations such as Freddie Mac and Hibernia Bank that evacuees will recover from the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Freddie Mac, Hibernia Bank, and Usher's New Look Foundation with recording artist Usher are to be commended on their humanitarian efforts. The social and practical problems caused by the hurricanes will only be exacerbated by the fact that finding permanent housing can be extremely challenging. I am elated to be a part of this effort.

    Our club members will be wearing their T-shirts, and children in grades three through seven will help out as ushers. Our 4- and 5-year-olds will be singing and two of the junior high girls will read Scripture. Additionally, a leader will share with the congregation what the clubs have been doing in the past year.

    When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

    Please do not think me a pessimist. I love life. I think it is a joy to live in this age. Every morning, as I greet the sun as he ushers in these unexcelled autumn days, I feel the joy of living. I realize the accomplishments, to a certain degree, of this wonderful mechanistic age. Today time and distance are practically annihilated.

    We had one church where the ushers would go outside the sanctuary into the hallways to return to the front with the offering. After several months, they began to realize that one guy's plate never had 20-dollar bills in it. He was taking them out while he was in the hallway, out of everyone's sight.





    Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.

    I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

    As the service moved forward toward its powerful climax, the miracles would begin. Kathryn would suddenly announce that a person in one of the balconies had been healed of an ailment, and someone in the wheelchair section was healed of cancer. On and on the announcements continued as the ushers moved up and down the aisles locating those who claimed to be healed in one of the ways described.


    I want to thank Freddie Mac, Hibernia Bank, and Usher's New Look Foundation for their work to rebuild the lives of those who lost homes to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We are all partners in this rebuilding effort, ... I hope that their work will inspire others to join together in partnership to keep real the great American ideal of homeownership for those who lost their homes as well as those who have never had a home. Thank you for giving the heart a place to call home.


    It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.




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