Pastor Quotes

#1. Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

Jay Bakker

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. The famous pastor in Scotland known as the prophet of Dundee44 once wrote: "For every time you look to men, look ten times to Christ." This constant looking back to Christ will keep us from judging others, and will allow us not to be discouraged even when we see problems with others in the body.

Greg Gordon

#5. By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus ... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.

William P. Leahy

#6. We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong places. Some people went to the old locations of a church, rather than the new one. We called the polling locations as well as the church pastor and they verified they were still open.

Jane Anderson

#7. Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

Marvin Sapp

#8. One of the things that confirmed Hyacinth's suspicion that America was an evil, lonely place was that people were islands unto themselves. And so when Avril drifted away, there was no friend or neighbor or pastor or coworker to reach out to and ask after her child.

Naomi Jackson

#9. You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.

Jim Cymbala

#10. I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

Della Reese

#11. 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

#12. Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?"
"I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#13. 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.

H.L. Mencken

#14. 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

#15. Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

Neil T. Anderson

#16. 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.

Robert Nugent Lynch

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

Barack Obama

#18. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish pastor and writer from the mid-1800s, said, "The greatest need of my congregation is my own personal holiness."1

Daron Brown

#19. No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself.

Ayana Mathis

#20. The Pastor had spent his boyhood in the old country and was not at all sure that hot water, stall showers and the like were necessary to salvation. In fact it was one of his notions that Americans were too clean. Rub all the natural protective oils off their skins, they do for a fact.

Budd Schulberg

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

Joel Osteen

#22. 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

#23. 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.

Ellen Key

#24. Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

H.L. Mencken

#25. There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

Bernhard Schlink

#26. At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

Donald Miller

#27. I pray for her every night ...
Keep praying. God hears you ...
I know. And Pastor says that some people take longer to find their happy- ever-after in Jesus.
That's right. Some people take a little longer.

Karen Kingsbury

#28. Dependence on the pastor turns the church inward instead of keeping its focus on reaching out. Everyone knows that the addition of more people threatens this great relationship with the pastor and creates competition between parishioners for the pastor's time.

Jim Griffith

#29. All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Neal Shusterman

#30. Pastor Kerney Thomas to these hoes.. miwacles.

Drake

#31. The pastor is saying something about how Charlie was a free spirit. He was and he wasn't. He was free because on the inside he was tied up in knots. He lived hard because on the inside he was dying. Charlie made inner conflict look delicious.

A.S. King

#32. As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

Andy Stanley

#33. 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

#34. Huevos up. Swing up to the window, swing back to Al B. Hall, who says, "Bless you," and would I get him a bottle of Satan's Red-Hot Revenge for the eggs?
Sure thing, Pastor.

Joan Bauer

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

Max Lucado

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.

Johnny Hunt

#39. The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

Victoria Osteen

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

Michael Emerson

#43. When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how about the last time a youth pastor subverted his or her "talk" through satire or parable rather than proof texting the six main points? Yet

Sarah Arthur

#44. During my first year as a pastor I performed funerals for 50 church members - and they were the wrong ones.

Roy Bell

#45. 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

#46. When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor's voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.

Stormie O'martian

#47. If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.

Eugene H. Peterson

#48. When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

Charles R. Swindoll

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. (Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

Larry Eskridge

#52. If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

Jim Parrack

#53. CII ABBOT PASTOR said: Just as bees are driven out by smoke, and their honey is taken away from them, so a life of ease drives out the fear of the Lord from man's soul and takes away all his good works.

Thomas Merton

#54. The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have ... whether you like it or not.

Josh McDowell

#55. As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".

James Wallace

#56. Whether it's an attorney or a bond trader or a journalist, or a musician or pastor, you want to do your best. You don't want to seek acclaim. You don't want to seek awards. You want to seek to do your best at what God's given you.

Louie Giglio

#57. The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.

Thomas Oden

#58. Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran pastor, was once fuming to her husband against the wrong kind of Christians, and he told her that "every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it."39

William McDavid

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. The person who understands that God is the only One who builds, becomes His beloved. And to that kind of pastor God will give sleep.

Sunday Adelaja

#62. No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.

W. Phillip Keller

#63. My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

Allyson Felix

#64. See the truth will set you free. You can go ahead and say that prayer now pastor, I'm pretty sure they'll need it.

Evelyn Smith

#65. The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of the pastor and the community.

Pope Francis

#66. Her Protestant pastor had been sympathetic, until the Gestapo terrified him into silence. Perhaps the same would happen again. But she did not know what else to do. Heinrich took

Ken Follett

#67. You can't bring an accusation against a pastor simply because you do not like him.

Neil T. Anderson

#68. One of my pastor friends, and a local hero, is Mike Minter. Mike is the founding pastor of Reston Bible Church, where he has served for nearly four decades.

Mark Batterson

#69. A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

Shane Claiborne

#70. I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

Wyclef Jean

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

Willie Aames

#72. Pastor Face Your Business" When people say this they mean that I must just stay behind the pulpit and preach

Sunday Adelaja

#73. Still hurting so much today from what my prior Pastor and
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church board did to me last year, and I really want to get past that. I want and need to forgive them, to move on with my life and look forward, forget the past.

Michael Richard Stosic

#74. The church doesn't belong to the pastor; it belongs to Jesus Christ.

Sunday Adelaja

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. Nietzsche- a weak but strongly mustachioed, Lutheran Pastor's son.

N.D. Wilson

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

Jonny Lang

#80. LXXXI ABBOT PASTOR was asked by a certain brother: How should I conduct myself in the place where I live? The elder replied: Be as cautious as a stranger; wherever you may be, do not desire your word to have power before you, and you will have rest.

Thomas Merton

#81. Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#82. 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

#83. When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

Ted Cruz

#84. I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

Roger Ross Williams

#85. 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

#86. We all want good friends - kind, respected, nice. The kind of people you want to introduce to your parents, other friends, pastor. But never underestimate the value of immoral friends - the ones that create the most precious memories you never will tell anyone else!

Jury Nel

#87. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

D.R. Silva

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. ..."Unforgiveness," said Pastor Allen, "is the cup of poison that we pour for another, and then drink ourselves."
'You are becoming a very bitter and twisted person, Hana Du Rose,' she chided herself as they sang the final hymn.

From the New Du Rose Matriarch

K.T. Bowes

#93. Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

Tom Ellis

#94. When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh

Tarrin P. Lupo

#95. They want the PK to dress like a grandparent and behave like Jesus. But they also seem to wait for the time when the pastor's daughter makes out and the son drinks beer.

Barnabas Piper

#96. A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

Frederic Farrar

#97. 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.

Mary Lambert

#98. When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

R. Kelly

#99. 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.'

Merry Clayton

#100. The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

Steven J. Lawson