Accepting Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do…

— John William Fletcher

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

— Anonymous

“The church has a very narrow commission. It is not called to be an alternative neighborhood, circle of friends, political action committee, social club,…

— Michael S. Horton

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

“The call to the work of justice is therefore not God sending his church out to a place where God cannot be found. Rather,…

— Anonymous

“But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot…

— Henry David Thoreau

“You know... how it feels to sit at a bar and not be judged- to just have a drink and let it all hang…

— Jodi Picoult

The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.

— Martyn

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

— Anonymous

“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