Pastor Quotations

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.

I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door.

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.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

I was in Christian broadcasting back in the 1970s. I was director of communications for James Robinson, and I really thought Christian broadcasting was going to be my career. There have been so many twist and turns in my life; of course I haven't been a pastor for almost 22 years, but it was a very important part of my life.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.

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.

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

She stated that she wanted a pastor to pray with her so she could thank God for saving her life, ... She's 8 years old. Isn't that the most beautiful thing you've ever heard?

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

He walked where few others were brave enough to walk. He was concerned for others and totally unselfish. He had an attitude of gratitude and a gift of encouragement. His role as peacemaker was what set him apart. Some of you may wonder why I call him pastor instead of reverend. Well, pastor is the Latin word for shepherd. He was the good pastor ? he knew his sheep, and the sheep knew him.

He heard our pastor who was telling people where they could bring supplies, ... He called the number given and got through on the first call. Down here, communications are awful, but he got through.

The people in Alabama have been wonderful to Bob, ... They've brought him clothes and Pastor Adams has visited Bob in the hospital.

My pastor at church told me that what's going on now is similar to a horse race. The horses come out of the gate with blinders on. The reason they do this is so they don't get distracted. Well, that's how I am with this. I'm focused on what is ahead.

I think they need to be more willing to talk individually with the pastor rather than across the back fence about him.

The allegations involve situations where the young men are attending a weekly class. Father Shanley is the pastor at the time. He asked for one or more of the students to come to assist him and talk about an instance -- and that's when the victims allege the abuse would occur,

That's the reason I'm still pastor of the congregation.

This was a shock. Pastor Hawkins was a fine person. He had a big heart and we need people on the board that believe in rehabilitation and a second chance. But he didn't think just anyone deserved it ; you had to earn it.

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

The pastor made a commitment to them. He plans on keeping it.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

We're so blessed with our pastor and his wife. They live their lives in a way we're supposed to, in their caring for one another and having a focus on God.

We got to the First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, which had been converted into a shelter for several dozen mothers and newborn infants, and I found the pastor and asked him to put me to work, ... He told me to collect the trash.

We're finding with our clergy all along the Gulf Coast affected by this storm that they have a need to be a pastor as usual. We'll let him speak, but not until he's reminded that he allow this has happened to him as well as to you.

Couldn't be better, ... I've been wanting to talk to the pastor of this place and tell him everybody has such a good attitude, good ethics. Everything has been great.

is essentially about taking root somewhere, as a pastor and teacher in this corner of England.

I've been Pastor here eight years and this is our first incidence of any kind of trouble or vandalism and we're just heartbroken because of it.

As pastor of the church, I'll bring him out from time to time.

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

A lot of what we do are things that only priests used to do. It involves doing many things alongside the pastor and the rest of the team in care of the parish; things like some teaching, some sacramental preparation, visiting the sick, training people for roles in the ministry.

A few people at our Church left after differences. They are using some girls to get the pastor thrown in prison.

I just always watched TV and believed I could play Division I. I prayed about it and talked to my pastor about it.

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.

I'm the pastor and God has ordained my brother to be an evangelist, he has the gift to cast out devils,

If you are a pastor, and you don't think your congregation wants to hear this kind of message, think about forming a new congregation. It won't be difficult. Just start preaching like a prophet of God, and the losers will leave, or toss you out. Your income as a pastor is going to wipe you out anyway; better seek alternative income now, while you have the opportunity.

OK, here's a Christian pastor writing a book that a Jewish lady is passing on to a Muslim lady.

I really like the pastor here. And I agree with his philosophy that the church has to be more than worrying about the building. ... There is no mandatory giving to the restoration. We tithe, and if I want to donate money to the restoration, it's my choice.

I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.

I remember that campaign. I was 14 years old, and I lived in Houston, Texas, and my pastor came back to our Baptist church and from the pulpit, he said: 'I have good news! President Kennedy told us that on public-policy issues, his church doesn't speak for him and he doesn't speak for his church. And that he's going to separate his Catholicism from his service if he's elected.' And people applauded all across the auditorium. They just thought it was a great thing.

Anybody who hears the word about the movie, ... should talk to their pastor and ask to do it at their church. If they have a DVD player and a screen, they can do it. There is curriculum that can be downloaded from the website that pastors can give to their people for studies and outreaches to their community. Everything is there. We just need to get the word out.

The church is even parking vehicles on my side of the line, ... The pastor told me to grow up. He needs to grow up.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

We had to change our minds within three or four weeks. Without the staff pastor assigned here, leading small groups and praying with people, it got a little thin.

I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the word of God. We're not telling preachers what they're supposed to say. We're saying it's part of our responsibility to get involved.

If God created a football team, Pastor Hawkins would be the quarterback. When he was on God?s field, he always ran the play the coach told him to. Northwest Arkansas lost a difference-maker when Pastor Hawkins went home. I lost a good friend.

He's not asking for the church to become involved, he's asking for Pastor Johnson to disseminate this through his personal network. Certainly, the pastor does not lose his right to free speech.

Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

One of the things I will do very early in my administration is to get rid of the Johnson Amendment so that our great pastors and ministers and rabbis and - and everybody - and priests and everybody can go and tell and can participate in the process.

What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.

I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.

There are a lot of pastors who have a vision and have not yet seen it become a reality.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.