Left behind Quote by Pope Francis

“The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

— C. J. Mahaney

Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

— C. J. Mahaney

“While praying, always duck and cover. The authentic spiritual pilgrimage may require that you walk all the way up a holy mountain, only to…

— William B. Miller

“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion…

— John Piper

“-The provisions you need to fulfill you ministry or mission is locked up in the open doors of utterance, faith and call -During your…

— Ikechukwu Joseph

Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route.…

— Rachel Held Evans

“It seems to me that in a pastoral situation our first risk is to throw people back on themselves with exhortations and instructions as…

— Anonymous

“hold that believers who have to see the same God in others that they see in themselves, must be able to live amongst all…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic…

— Paul Shepard

There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along…

— Larry Crabb