Quotes About Pastoral Care

#1. You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.

David Yonggi Cho

#2. Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

Nina Blackwood

#3. The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

Thomas C. Oden

#4. Every once in awhile, when you can see shades of the person's real interior life, I think that's interesting.

Donal Logue

#5. When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

Victoria Jackson

#6. I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

Martin Naughton

#7. Merlin's beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.

J.K. Rowling

#8. One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.

Thomas C. Oden

#9. If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

Alex Borstein

#10. No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.

St. Gregory Dialogos

#11. I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.

Charles Schwab

#12. The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.

Thomas C. Oden

#13. The driven, passionate ones give their best on ordinary days and that is why they are extraordinary.

Twinkle Khanna

#14. The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation.

Daniel Henderson

#15. Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Gary Rohrmayer