Become Quote by Dallas Willard

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a…

— Rob Bell

“Pastors are appointed by God to help their people see that the church walks in the light and all others in darkness. We, the…

— Owen Strachan

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for…

— Eugene H. Peterson

A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright…

— Jerry Falwell

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Being a pastor is God’s way of redeeming my incessant need to be the center of attention.”

— Michael Hidalgo

“The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and…

— Owen Strachan

“I have talked with many pastors whose real struggle isn't first with the hardship of ministry, the lack of appreciation and involvement of people,…

— Paul David Tripp

Many churches have de-emphasized preaching and worship in favor of entertainment, apparently believing they must lure converts by appealing to fleshly interests. As if…

— John Macarthur

Some pastors are so hard-nosed about submission and insensitive to their wives' needs that they don't recognize the frustration even hatred within their own…

— Anita Bryant

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

When a pastor steals or over-borrows someone else's work, that pastor is not only playing a role like an actor but isn't a true…

— John MacArthur