How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I am bound, as a pastor, by divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that is all… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety. — Thomas Oden Copy Share Image
If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED… — Rick Warren 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
“Lester was the obvious choice for pastor, I guess, since he’d sired half the congregation.” — Sam Torode 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
Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't continue with my therapy, I went to church and received counseling from my pastor and got straight spiritually.… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care… — William Edgar Copy Share Image
There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership… — John C. Maxwell 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
I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
“A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter,… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb,… — Pope Leo XIII 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
Forgiveness is constructed in the DNA of the persecuted. One Egyptian pastor this spring delivered a sermon titled, "A Message to Those… — Johnnie Moore, Jr 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
I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
“Busyness is one of the pastor’s most effective tools of remaining at a safe relational and emotional distance.” — J R Briggs Copy Share Image
“You know, Pastor, how we always say God won’t give us more than we can handle?” “Yes, Lydie.” She sighed. “I wish… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne 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
A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision. — John C. Maxwell 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
I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But… — Jeremiah Wright 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
I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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