Pastor Quotes - Page 18

• The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others ... for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more.

  Pope Gregory I

  Heart, Past, Hands

  10 Copy quote

• It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.

  James Robison

  Evil, Closets, Priests

  22 Copy quote

• My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

  Ziggy Marley

  Spiritual, Cousin, Grandmother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.

  Margaret Court

  School, Australia, People

  7 Copy quote

• ...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the edges of the pulpit as they depart from it. Members of the congregation carry Bibles to church services; the paster announces a long passage text for his sermon and waits for people to find it, then reads only the first verse of it before he takes off. The Book has become a talisman.

  Harold Bloom

  Book, Past, Church Service

  12 Copy quote

• I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Weekend, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Sheep, Brave

  4 Copy quote

• I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let me repeat this: the malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else; it is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, and evangelist of our day. That is where the malady is to be found.

  Paul Washer

  Country, Roots, Ignorant

  33 Copy quote

• I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

  Henry Cloud

  Integrity, Reality, Past

  "The Composition of Integrity - Henry Cloud Interview". Interview with Paul Braoudakis, willowcreek.org.uk. November 10, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

  Christian Camargo

  Blessed, Fortunate, Nations

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Beautiful, Mother, Father

  6 Copy quote

• The war between the Pastor and the Prophet will cease with the full emergence of the Apostle.... Are we going to be willing to submit our ministry to a specific Apostolic visionary? This is a critical question that will determine our influence on hastening the coming of the Lord, in our effective contribution to the restoring of all things spoken by the prophets.

  John Eckhardt

  War, Past, Ministry

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Law, White, Common Sense

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are like horses that must be broken; basically that one should submit to a pastor even if he is wrong.

  John Bevere

  Horse, Broken, Should

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Teaching, Heart, Hands

  15 Copy quote

• It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Blessed, Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “The Eucharist in the life of the church: encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia, with three presentations from the 3rd Nigerian National Eucharistic Congress, Ibadan, November 15-17, 2002”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Fighting, Idaho

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Past, Sheep, Light

  28 Copy quote

• Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.

  Otis Moss III

  Gay, Issues, Racism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Church, Gains, Tvs

  22 Copy quote

• I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.

  Jerry Vines

  Doors, Common Sense, Church

  Source: sbctoday.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Years, Needs, World

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Heart, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Hurt, Prayer, Humor

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Thinking, Missing, Incredibles

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2011.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source