Quotes About Pastor

While risky behavior might be expected, even praised in a visionary Lead Pastor, second chair leaders are not always known for being risk takers.

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.

My mum was very glamorous, an incredible seamstress. She made up those Vogue, Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent patterns they used to sell. It was church couture, darling! Because my dad was a pastor, she could get away with more than other women. Her skirts were that bit tighter.

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.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

I'm a pastor. I lead Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. served.

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.

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.

Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry.

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.

I was John Lewis's pastor, but he was my mentor.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

I feel like the D.C. streets just love Gucci Mane. He's like a hood pastor.