Pastor Quotes · Page 4

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

— Robert H. Schuller

“A child doesn’t know the call of his pastor father. All he knows is the effects it has on his life.”

— Barnabas Piper

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

— John Ortberg

There are a lot of pastors who have a vision and have not yet seen it become a reality.

— John C. Maxwell

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

— John Calvin

“The greatest danger to a church’s spiritual health is a pastor-centric church model.”

— Elizabeth Esther

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

— Jeremiah Wright

The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive,…

— Pete Holmes

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment…

— James Montgomery Boice

To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution:…

— Steve Daines

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

— Jay Bakker

I want a janitor, a school teacher, the local pastor, whomever is involved in the community to sit at the table and…

— Ashley Biden

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

— Roger Ross Williams

“A pastor really needs to be broken before God every day, or he will break up the church of God with his…

— C. John Miller

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed…

— Howard G. Hendricks

I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws…

— David Wolpe

“Hakuna uponyaji pasipo imani ya kweli. Giza linapoingia katika maisha yako ongea na Mungu. Halafu ongea na tatizo linalokusumbua. Kama tatizo linalokusumbua…

— Enock Maregesi

During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society,…

— Jerry Falwell

There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or…

— Bernhard Schlink

In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack Obama's inflammatory former pastor…

— John Dickerson

I think our shepherds, our pastors, can take for instance, Chapter Four [of Amoris Laetitia], 'Vive l'amore' ('How to live love'). It's…

— Christoph Schonborn

When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd…

— Heather Headley

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly…

— Kevin DeYoung

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying…

— Leonard Ravenhill

As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less;…

— C. J. Mahaney

Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our…

— Eric Bentley

“(from chapter 16, "Catacombs Presbyterian Church"): "When is this going to happen? How long do we have to wait? When does construction…

— Eugene H. Peterson

I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure…

— Randall Wallace

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

“Others are more knowledgeable about the situation than I am. I must go along with their decisions. It is my place to…

— Stephen Arterburn

I pastor because God has called us to preach the gospal to his people. We must imitate Christ in the earth. Please…

— Pastor Cedric

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

— George Weigel

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman.

— Rick Warren

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

— Louie Giglio

“God could say no… But he might say yes. #Prayanyway. " Pastor Mark Carter”

— Shidorr Myrick-Gayer

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— David Wilkerson

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

— John C. Maxwell

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

— Timothy Keller