Pastor Quotes
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The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.
A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.
You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.
If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.
If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.
If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.
Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.
You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.
Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
As a pastor I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.
When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
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I've always been asked, "What type of character would you love to play?," and I've always said a pastor.