Pastor Quotes - Page 8

• God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.

  R. C. Sproul

  God, Faith, Christian

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• 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

  Christian, Jesus, Morning

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

  Stuart Briscoe

  Children, Heart, Mind

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• 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

  Roles, Individual, Abstract

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• To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution: thank you for all you do.

  Steve Daines

  Religious, Leader, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Doors, Support, Church

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

  Jeremiah Wright

  People, Speak

  Source: inthesetimes.com

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• A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Reality, Action

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions to Help You See It and Seize It”, p.61, Thomas Nelson

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• I also admire my pastor, John K. Jenkins Sr. (First Baptist Church of Glenarden). My pastor taught me the importance of tithing and giving back, that it has to be at the top of my budget. And he is one of the most generous folks I know.

  Michelle Singletary

  Giving, Church, Baptists

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

  David Wilkerson

  Prayer, Past, Church

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• Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Thinking, Christian Inspirational, Judgment

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• 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

  Men, Atheism, Rivals

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• As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

  Oscar Romero

  Giving, Divine, Kill Me

  "Voice of the Voiceless: The Four Pastoral Letters and Other Statements".

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• I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.

  David Wolpe

  Running, People, Balls

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Catholic, Persecution, Shows

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• The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

  George Weigel

  Needs, World, Knows

  Source: eppc.org

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• You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

  Joshua Harris

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.

  Aubrey Malphurs

  Leadership, Christian, Passion

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• I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.

  Craig Groeschel

  Followers, Christ, Part Time

  Craig Groeschel (2010). “The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Worry, Needs

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• The Lord loves us so much that He suffered for us on the Cross; and His suffering was so great that we can't comprehend it. In the same way our spiritual pastors suffer for us, although we often don't see their suffering. The greater the love of the pastor, the greater his suffering; and we, the sheep, should understand this, and love and honor our pastors.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• 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

  Spiritual, Prayer, Past

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• The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Christian, Growing Up, Past

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• There is nothing that could be revealed about a pastor that has not already been covered by the blood of Jesus

  Paul David Tripp

  Jesus, Blood, Covered

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• How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?

  Chuck Baldwin

  Teacher, Musician, Physicians

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