Quotes About Pastoring

#1. I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

David Platt

#2. An Evangelists heart cry is for the lost, not so much on maturing the saints, or weeding sin out of
the church, or pastoring the flock, but for the lost to see Christ, and the sin he bore for them, and
cry out for them to run to Him!

Billy Witt

#3. I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

Rob Bell

#4. In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

Timothy Keller

#5. Writing is not a literary act but spiritual. And pastoring is not managing a religious business but a spiritual quest.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

#9. I love people. I enjoy people.

John Catsimatidis

#10. The Church is the Heart, not the amount of Sunday services you attend because many people goes to church but still partake in Devilish acts.

Henry Johnson Jr

#11. In the absence of Death, In the presence of Death, Only one thing remains, It is Love.

Vera Nazarian

#12. 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

#13. When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

James A. Baldwin

#15. When you are true to yourself and loving, you may not win today but still be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

John Henry Newman

#17. You can thank me later, babe, when I'm spankin' your ass, and then you can call me daddy all you like.

River Savage

#18. I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Matt Chandler

#19. I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.

Lurlene McDaniel