I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows. — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Não aprendeste nada, vai-te, dissera o Pastor, e quiçá quisesse dizer que ele não aprendera a defender a vida.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“an old pastor’s anxiety for his church is likewise a forgetfulness of the fact that Christ is Himself the pastor of His… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to… — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
I think I used to not know if I could be a good pastor because I think I had some things in… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family,… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I am not only a State Senator but I am a pastor, a minister, and the President of an organization comprised of… — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
“Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In Seoul, Korea one night I spoke to about 1.3 million people and over a million of them indicated salvation decisions. They… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
“A pastor impatiently demands his children to know, believe, and do what it took him twenty-five or forty-five years with Jesus to… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
“If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible… — Bart D. Ehrman 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
The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent… — Watchman Nee 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 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
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
I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003 — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife. — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
“Though my eyes yet continue to grow dim from old age I can still see Jesus.” — Jerry Kinard Copy Share Image
“As a pastor, if nothing else I want to be remembered for giving the Word.” — Jerry Kinard Copy Share Image
Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
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