Quotes About Pastor

A subversive associate constantly listens to tapes from external ministers and learns from them. But he never listens to his own head pastor's tapes.

As a pastor, I have performed many funerals over the years. It is in these tragic moments in peoples' lives that they most clearly articulate their ideas of heaven. And I learn again and again that the desire for heaven is intense and universal, but our understanding of heaven is weak and muddled.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

I have a pastor friend who says the root of sin is the desire for control. I think there's some truth to that. And I'd add the root of control is fear.

I heard my pastor say once, when there were only a few of us standing around, that he hated Bill Clinton. I can understand not liking Clinton's policies, but I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it. I couldn't deal with that.

Do you pray for your pastor on Saturday night? Don't criticize him, but rather pray for him. He needs your prayers. The Devil gives him enough opposition. You don't need to join the crowd that crucifies the man who is preaching the Word of God. You ought to uphold his hands as Aaron and Hur upheld the hands of Moses on behalf of Israel. My heart goes out to pastors who are in need of congregations who will stand with them.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

As for myself I am somewhat puzzled. I do not want our pastor left to preach to empty pews. But I am greatly enamored of the Deacon's second service.

You've witnessed what you c-c-c-call a miracle and now you believe-you believe everything, Pastor Merrill said. But miracles don't c-c-c-cause belief-real miracles don't m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor, my mom, she has such great faith.

Huevos up. Swing up to the window, swing back to Al B. Hall, who says, "Bless you, " and would I get him a bottle of Satan's Red-Hot Revenge for the eggs?Sure thing, Pastor.

The Apostle's robes billowed even though there was no wind. Pastor Bligh's robes were white and purple. Lavender and bleach. Detergent and antiseptic. The Apostle's black and red robes blew with flesh and blood, terror and magnificence.

I didn't want to open up to the kind of pastor who believed that, while I told him my story, God was secretly and inerrantly revealing the rest of my story to him. I've had pastors make assumptions about me before. I'd tell them a story or two, and they filled in the blanks with their own theories and conclusions about the condition of my soul.

We read Revelation as words from a prophet-pastor (and ultimately from God), in order to be formed and transformed, not merely informed

the past few years I have approached music ministry with the mind-set of a pastor first, and a musician second.

In the spirit of reciprocity, our church began receiving teams and leaders from the Moldovan church as long ago as 1991. In sharp contrast to the Moldovan pattern-and I say this to my own shame, as I helped shape the relationship-it was many years before a Moldovan pastor preached from our pulpit.

Pastor, your eternal future carries with it the sure promise that you will have all the grace you need to do what you've been called to do between the time you came to Christ and the time you will go home to be with him forever.

é absolutamente vital lembrar que o ministério do pastor não é estruturado apenas por seu conhecimento, experiência e habilidade. Ele sempre é estruturado também pela verdadeira condição do seu coração. Na verdade, se o seu coração não estiver no lugar correto, todo o conhecimento e habilidade podem funcionar para torná-lo perigoso.