Top 100 A Pastor Quotes
#1. One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.
John Piper
#2. Even if you are a preacher or a pastor, you will never be able to avoid questions related to money.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.
Todd Burpo
#4. When I was growing up, I grew up in church
my father was a pastor
so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.
Heather Headley
#5. If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.
Carl R. Trueman
#6. What can I say? You bring out the devil in me."
"That's not a comforting thing to tell a pastor's daughter,
Suzanne Young
#7. I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.
Mel Gibson
#8. 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.
Victoria Jackson
#9. There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!
Monica Johnson
#11. My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.
Mallory Ortberg
#12. I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.
Richie Furay
#13. 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.
Adam Hamilton
#14. In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you.
Lori Hatcher
#15. 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.
Chris Oyakhilome
#16. Pastoring effects conversion of heart and mind and soul. A pastor is given by Christ to call people to conversion, to change, for the sake of life with God here and in eternity.
Francis George
#17. I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.
Rick Warren
#18. I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.
Trai Byers
#19. Much of the conflict occurring in congregations is caused when a church calls a pastor whose gifts and passion do not match what the church has been in the past.
Rick Warren
#20. A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#22. I'm not looking for peace on earth through a political solution. I'm a pastor. The Bible talks about three kinds of peace. There is peace with God. There's the peace of God. And there's peace with each other.
Rick Warren
#23. I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.
Eugene H. Peterson
#24. A pastor who lived through the Third Reich described his meetings with Nazi officials in a way that illuminates life in totalitarian societies: "[O]ne would be pushed further, step by step, until he had crossed over the line, without noticing that his spine was being bent millimeter by millimeter.
Randall L. Bytwerk
#25. As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
Johnny Hunt
#26. We have all been hurt at some point in our lives, from a spouse, a friend, an employer, a co-worker,a pastor and sometimes the wounds are so deep we wonder if they will ever heal.
Michael Richard Stosic
#27. It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness,
Mark Driscoll
#28. If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.
Aubrey Malphurs
#29. As a pastor, I recognize that in theological terms, narcissists want to be the center of attention, like a god, and have people worship them by paying attention to them, buying the products they promote, and emulating their behavior.
Mark Driscoll
#30. I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.
Jeremy Lin
#31. There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus
Paul David Tripp
#32. To get a doctorate, you need only have a modicum of intelligence and the ability to grind it out. I'm afraid you may only be qualified to be an academic, not a pastor. Ministry is a lot harder than scholarship.
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
#33. 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.
Marvin Sapp
#34. I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.
David Wolpe
#35. As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.
Todd Burpo
#36. Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven.
Rick Warren
#37. I am not an 'elder', 'deacon', nor a 'pastor', and I do not have any ambitions to become one!".
~R. Alan Woods {2012]
R. Alan Woods
#38. If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#39. Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.
Della Reese
#40. I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
Donald Miller
#41. Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.
Gloria Gaither
#42. When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.
Steve Camp
#43. I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.
Mark Batterson
#44. I've always been asked, "What type of character would you love to play?," and I've always said a pastor.
Common
#45. The ministry of a pastor is not a ministry you should ever carry on your own shoulders. It has to be put into the temple of the Lord, who Himself is our Sabbath.
Sunday Adelaja
#46. I have a pastor friend who says the root of sin is the desire for control. I think there's some truth to that. And I'd add the root of control is fear.
Donald Miller
#47. The key to being a successful pastor is to be able to minister supernaturally, be a pastor without tears, in learning of Him, learning from His life.
Sunday Adelaja
#48. 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.
Eric Ludy
#49. A pastor with no experience in a church your size or slightly larger. A pastor with a lawsuit or one
William Vanderbloemen
#50. God wants to use you right where you are. Every day you probably come in contact with people who will never enter a church, or talk with a pastor, or open a Bible - and God wants to use you to point them to Christ. You may be the "bridge" God would use to bring them to Himself.
Billy Graham
#52. 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.
Adam Hamilton
#53. My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang in a church choir. I can take no credit for my vocal talent, because, both my father, and mother have beautiful, beautiful voices.
Deniece Williams
#54. If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to eternity, the whole thing comes to nothing. A human life, unlike a cargo ship, cannot lie in the same place until the next Sunday.
Soren Kierkegaard
#55. Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.
Marvin Sapp
#56. Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.
Rob Bell
#57. And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.
George W. Bush
#58. Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.
Neil T. Anderson
#59. I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
Joel Osteen
#60. Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.
Andy Stanley
#61. As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
Andy Stanley
#62. My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.
Danielle Brooks
#63. All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
Max Lucado
#64. 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.
Eugene H. Peterson
#65. The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.
Ed Silvoso
#66. I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.
Max Lucado
#67. It's only when you are meek and lowly that you can find rest for your soul and be a pastor without tears.
Sunday Adelaja
#68. During my first year as a pastor I performed funerals for 50 church members - and they were the wrong ones.
Roy Bell
#69. You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God ... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
Charles Stanley
#70. I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
Tullian Tchividjian
#71. A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#72. If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.
Jim Parrack
#73. 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.
David Augsburger
#74. 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.
Rick Warren
#75. My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.
Allyson Felix
#76. You can't bring an accusation against a pastor simply because you do not like him.
Neil T. Anderson
#77. A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.
Shane Claiborne
#78. I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Wyclef Jean
#79. Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.
Jay Bakker
#80. My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.
Tullian Tchividjian
#81. The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
Eugene H. Peterson
#82. 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.
Eugene H. Peterson
#83. As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.
Rob Bell
#84. I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.
Richie Furay
#85. 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.
Rob Bell
#86. The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people.
Rick Warren
#87. The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
Watchman Nee
#88. I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.
Andrae Crouch
#89. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.
Immanuel Kant
#90. 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.
Julian Bond
#91. A pastor who counsels an abuse victim to:
- Submit to her husband
- Pray harder, or
- Be a better wife
can't help her. She should not feel guilty about looking elsewhere for help.
Caroline Abbott
#92. I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I've sat across the table from people who were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.
Mitt Romney
#93. 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.
Joshua Harris
#94. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
D.R. Silva
#95. Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
Mark Batterson
#96. A pastor really needs to be broken before God every day, or he will break up the church of God with his willfulness or let it slip into spiritual death through his sloth.
C. John Miller
#97. Revelation is a pastor's letter to his floundering flock, an urgent telegram bearing a brilliant battle plan for a people at war.
Billy Graham
#98. I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all Salvadoreans, even those who are going to kill me.
Oscar Romero
#99. I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.
Rick Warren
#100. We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong.
John Bevere
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