A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The message of the gospel speaks loudest when people can see Christ in us.” — Jerry Kinard Copy Share Image
The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Lester was the obvious choice for pastor, I guess, since he’d sired half the congregation.” — Sam Torode Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I had 50 pastors, ministers, I had priests, I had a couple of rabbis in a big conference room in one of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book, Max on Life; for many it just never gets published. All… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing… — Curtis Hutson Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
“A pastor struggled for years with sexual addiction, eventually becoming so despondent that hospitalized himself. He joined an inpatient group and was… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
The shortest verse in the Bible is popularly regarded as John 11:35 Jesus wept, but it's not! At least, not by word… — Kenneth W Griffin Copy Share Image
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 19, "Willi Ossa") "...when I did [become a pastor], I knew that it was a vocation, not a job. I… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "We were getting it: worship was not so much what we did, but what we let God do… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 26, "Emmaus Walks") "[our Quaker retreat leader} warned us against shortcuts [to solve the "badlands"]. he encouraged us to submit… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 24, "Heather-scented Theology") "...I was more than ever what I had been becoming for a long time - a contemplative… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
![“(from chapter 19, "Willi Ossa") "...when I did [become a pastor], I knew that it was a vocation, not a job. I told my friends in the Company [of Pastors] the story of Willi...We were honing our observational skills in discerning the difference between vocation and job. As we were seeing pastors…” quote by Eugene H. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c76/eugene-h-peterson-1745_career_from-chapter-19-willi-ossa-when-i-did-be_1948178.jpg)
![“(from chapter 26, "Emmaus Walks") "[our Quaker retreat leader} warned us against shortcuts [to solve the "badlands"]. he encouraged us to submit ourselves to the boredom, the refining fire of nonperformance, not to be in a hurry. 'A lot is going on when you don't think anything is going on.' ...He…” quote by Eugene H. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd2/eugene-h-peterson-1745_leadership_from-chapter-26-emmaus-walks-our-quaker_1378288.jpg)
