Ed Pastor Quotes

Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.

I think in my car somebody is playing with the pressure and the temperatures.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Coca Cola’s Eva Water has hypnotized you into thinking that a sip of rainwater can kill you.

God always gives grace to the person who knows how to humble himself before Him and who sets his hopes on Him. God only gives grace to humble people.

A good pastor knows how to trust people and how to give them authority to fulfill all kinds of tasks. He tries to make himself unnoticed and unnecessary. Don’t be indispensable!

We mustn’t just simply pray, but rather ask God about His desires and plans. This is the prayer of enquiry

Don’t just pray, but reach out in prayer to get an understanding of God’s plan, of His revelation and vision for your life.

Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.

Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey.

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.

The heart cannot embrace what the mind does not accept.

The fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia. War is, among other things, impatience.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

It takes understanding to be outstanding

Start focusing your attention on the people that God puts you with, even if they hate you, even if they persecute you and speak bad things about you. Work with them and pray for them!

A lot depends on the small things

People who want to get everything all at once, usually end up getting nothing in life.

Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Some pray to marry the man they love My prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above That I love the man I marry.

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor.

A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.

A real pastor — a good shepherd — is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church.