Pastor Quotes - Page 19

• 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

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• We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no pastors on the other side testifying against gun control... I had to literally open up my Bible and read scripture to these pastors in a hearing in Olympia. A politician had to read scripture to pastors.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Gun, Insightful

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• It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

  Randall Terry

  Hygiene, Interesting, Guy

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• People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's day-to-day lives. Jesus spoke to the crowd with an interesting style. When God's Word is taught in an uninteresting way, people don't just think the pastor is boring, they think God is boring!

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Teaching, Past

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• It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Blessing, Past

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Today, more pastors than ever need profound encouragement and rejuvenation.

  Will Graham

  Encouragement, Profound, Needs

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• I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Teaching, Thinking, Giving

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• The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, People, Giving

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 13, 2011.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Passion, Rapper, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

  Todd Burpo

  Mom, Daughter, Morning

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• 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

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• 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

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• God has blessed me in many ways. Money is not the greatest blessing you can have, but I literally had absolutely nothing. The first message that I preached at Life in the Word, I had to borrow a suit from my pastor's wife, because I didn't have any decent clothes, and I was driving a 20-year-old car. We went through a lot of years of having nothing, sleeping in McDonald's parking lots, because we didn't have money to stay all night in a hotel. But, like anybody else who works hard and is diligent and doesn't quit and doesn't give up, there is a day the blessings come.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Blessed, Sleep

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• 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

  Thinking, Church, Moments

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• 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

  Atheist, Years, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

  Pope Francis

  People, Community, Soul

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Vision, World

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

  Shane Claiborne

  Problem, Said, Martyr

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Men, Order, People

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

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• My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

  Rob Bell

  People, Toxic, Dangerous

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• I think there's pressure when you're a pastor that you have to have all the answers, and if you don't, your faith is built on sand. For me, faith is about believing in those things you can't see and at times can't understand. I've been really blessed to have people who are open to that and stick around. Not everyone does stick around, though.

  Jay Bakker

  Believe, Blessed, Thinking

  "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

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