Congregation Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Download Open image “A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Congregation Doe Pastor Praying
“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 Copy Share Image
If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In many ways, being a pastor is simply being a person. A person who shows up, a person who prays, a person who worships,… — Martha Spong Copy Share Image
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying.… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is only one church, the church of faith ruled by the word of Jesus Christ alone. This is the true catholic church that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. — Gary North Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders...to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his hands. He… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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