Top 100 Quotes About The Pastor
#1. If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.
Howard G. Hendricks
#2. 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.
Robert Rainy
#3. I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
Charles Stanley
#4. A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor ...
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#5. The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.
John C. Maxwell
#6. Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.
John Piper
#7. Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.
Jim Cymbala
#8. Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.
Leonard Ravenhill
#9. When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
Bobby Womack
#10. When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
Martin Luther
#11. A husband speaks to his wife: "I don't want to go to church Sunday." "Honey, you have to go." "Give me one good reason why I have to go." "You are the pastor!
Dr. James Wilkins
#12. The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
John Calvin
#13. I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor.
Molly Harper
#14. The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
Eugene H. Peterson
#15. But what is the theological cost of viewing ministry as management and pastors as professional organizers, albeit in charge of spiritual organizations? What is lost in the switch is the biblical vision of the pastor as a shepherd of a flock of souls. Such
Iain M. Duguid
#16. The pastor looks at the money. It is money coming from the wife of a sodomite. It is money coming from a woman. It is the deep-lying root of evil. But it is a lot of money.
Jessie Burton
#17. Story has staying power. We remember the illustrations from Sunday's sermon for months afterward, but by coffee hour we're already struggling to recite the pastor's three main points, despite various acronyms meant to help us.
Sarah Arthur
#18. The main focus of this group is to help bridge the gifts and abilities of the pastor (and other staff) and laity in the church. Building the bridges that will link the faithfulness of the past with the possibilities of the future is crucial.
General Board Of Discipleship
#19. Word on the street is how the Pastor bought pussy on Saturday, and then spit cum lies on Sunday. Riddle me that Batman,
Flenardo L Taylor
#20. The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.
Marilynne Robinson
#21. I'm never going to live this down. I will forever be known as the pastor's kid who got arrested, made friends in jail, and threw up on the singles camping trip. That will look great on a resume.
A.C. Williams
#22. The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.
Matt Chandler
#23. But God answered with silence. He did that sometimes, and Father Ferguson always interpreted it to mean that he should think for himself. Admittedly, it didn't always work out well when the pastor thought for himself, but you couldn't just give up.
Jonas Jonasson
#24. she was given a dying Sunday evening women's class in a megachurch. The class began to grow rapidly. The women then began to bring their husbands, who gladly listened to Mom teach until the pastor stepped in to stop it!
Alan F. Johnson
#25. 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
#26. Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#27. My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'
Curtis Jackson
#28. I don't know about you, but there have been plenty of times when I have driven home from a hospital visit wondering why they let me be the pastor.
Andy Stanley
#29. I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time. I'm very close with my church, very close with the pastor and his wife, and I work with a girls' ministry here.
Tiffany Dupont
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. No one could tell her why things had turned out as they had, not August or the pastor or God himself.
Ayana Mathis
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".
James Wallace
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. The church doesn't belong to the pastor; it belongs to Jesus Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. 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.
Richard Morris
#43. From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can't miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil's demons put together.
Wes Moore
#44. You see, the pastor is not making disciples who follow him; he is making disciples who follow Jesus.
Jim Putman
#45. Twenty minutes later, just as Stella thought she was going to collapse with worry and anticipation, her father, the pastor, and Mr. Spencer emerged from the polling station, smiles lighting their faces. And now she saw what she'd expected to see earlier in Mr. Spencer's eyes. They were on fire.
Sharon M. Draper
#46. The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
John Piper
#47. The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. The pastor makes twenty-four
references to hell
in the sermon at church and forgets
to talk
about love.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#49. Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.
Tom Ellis
#50. A true homosexual would never turn down sex. The megapastor at his mama's church had given many a sermon about the immoral, wanton, and promiscuous behaviour of the gays. If the pastor had been wrong, well, Praline would be sorely disappointed.
Marshall Thornton
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.
Henry Rollins
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29
John Paul Warren
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. In 1996, I entered into pastoral counseling with Pastor David Drake from the Metropolitan Chapel on North Forest Road in East Amherst, New York.
Janet Pfaff
#63. If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.
Bill Ayers
#64. Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#66. Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.
R.A. Torrey
#67. The Church is Christ's witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
John Paul Warren
#68. 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
#69. Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.
Gary Rohrmayer
#72. Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
H.L. Mencken
#73. 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
#74. I once heard a Chicago-area pastor put it this way: we don't need more Americans bowing down to the Democrat donkey or the Republican elephant. We need more Americans bowing down to the Lion of Judah.
Todd Starnes
#75. 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
#76. A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.
Monica Johnson
#77. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
John Paul Warren
#78. My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
Erik Larson
#79. 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
#80. Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.
Monica Johnson
#81. The LAW points you to self-efforts. GRACE points you to the finished work of Jesus Christ.
John Paul Warren
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin". If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer.
John Paul Warren
#85. There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
John Paul Warren
#86. You're Zacchaeus. Your health condition is your dwarfness, and your celebrity status is the tree. You will climb the tree and Jesus will see you . You should see Pastor Chris before Healing School commences.
S.A. David
#87. I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
K. A. Paul
#88. 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
#89. Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!
David Grachek
#90. 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
#91. It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.
Bill Johnson
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.
Francis Chan
#96. 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
#97. The law says do good be right. Grace says Jesus made you right so now you are good.
John Paul Warren
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
