Complaining Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

— Pete Holmes

“Pastors and leaders must recognize, and then relinquish, any methods of control and manipulation they exercise. They must cease to gossip against fellow pastors…

— John Paul Jackson

Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of…

— Kevin DeYoung

“Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate by your…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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 congregation that does not pray for the ministry of its pastor,” Bonhoeffer warns, “is no longer a congregation.”11 He then adds, “A pastor who…

— Stephen J. Nichols

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

“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