Quotes of: Pastors Keyword

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

Joel Osteen

If it rains on the pastor it drops on the vicar.

French

I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the co...

Mark Batterson

When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

Ted Cruz

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 pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, t...

Eugene H. Peterson

Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!

Presumption of Paternity

Pastors come for your wine and officers for your daughters.

Dutch

The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.

Pierce Brosnan

I have noticed over the past three years that most African Christians depend on their pastor or preachers for directions in life than their lecturers, politicians and nurses. That tells why most people refuse certain medical priorities with regards t...

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Robert Rainy

I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners.

Shannon L. Alder

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

David Augsburger

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study f...

Karl Barth

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Over four decades of pastoral ministry—I got started early—you make mistakes. But the mistakes you most regret are the ones that obscure the gospel and hurt the people you love, by saying in effect, "You do not belong," to those for whom Christ d...

A Letter to My Congregation: An evangelical pastor's path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender in the company of Jesus