Pastor Quotes - Page 12

• There are a lot of pastors who have a vision and have not yet seen it become a reality.

  John C. Maxwell

  Reality, Vision

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Past, People, Community

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.88, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

  John C. Maxwell

  Memories, Home, Special

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.

  John C. Maxwell

  College, Years, Ministry

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Church, Growing

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• I said God, I want to spend the rest of my life helping people, and felt a real call through a divine moment, an encounter with God. I went to my pastor and said I have a call of God to preach. He put a broom in my hand, and I began to sweep the church.

  Paula White

  Real, Hands, People

  Source: culteducation.com

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• One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon Johnson in the 1950s passed an amendment because supposedly he was having a hard time with a church in Houston, with a pastor. And he passed an amendment saying basically if you're a pastor, if you're a religious person, you cannot get up and talk politics.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Hard Times, Church

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.

  Heather Headley

  Growing Up, Father, School

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• Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Couple, Thinking

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial congregations, whites will just dominate then. There are so many more of them, and they're used to being in the position of power. So they'll just take over, and we'll lose the one thing we do have.

  Michael Emerson

  Moving, Position Of Power, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It was an all-white church. It was starting to decline. They had to hire a new pastor, and they hired him. But he came under the condition that "I want and I'm called to make this a multiethnic church." So they knew. He's interesting because he's part-Asian, part-white. He's married to a Hispanic woman, so that's their family and that's their vision.

  Michael Emerson

  White, Interesting, Vision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The gifts that Yeshua left in the earth realm to enforce His authority were apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. The gift that gets controlled or stopped, which hinders the others from coming into fullness, is the prophet's gift and authority. Apostles will attempt to build a pattern without present revelation, and end up building man's model.

  Chuck Pierce

  Teacher, Men, Earth

  "Chuck Pierce: Rend the Heavens and Let Prophetic Revelation Fall! Key Prophecies for Now!". www.elijahlist.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I heard a statistic, and this one blew my mind, that 1 out of every 4 men in the church are involved in pornography. And yet, when was the last time you heard a pastor talk about pornography? ... Talk to people in law enforcement, and they will tell you that the great majority of sexual assaults were perpetrated by people that were looking at pornography and they wanted to make a reality what they were seeing in the pornography.

  Rafael Cruz

  Reality, Men, Law

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document.

  Christoph Schonborn

  Beautiful, Effort, Community

  "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

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• The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

  Matt Chandler

  Book, Years, Profound

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• I grew up going to church. My dad was a pastor. I knew that God had a plan for my life. I knew that Jesus was the only way to Heaven. But I loved sin. The Bible says that sin is pleasurable for a season and I loved it.

  Dominic Balli

  Jesus, Dad, Heaven

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Past, Vision, Church

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, "Do you have a vision for my church?" Many times they want me to give them a picture of where they should go and what their church should look like. When these pastors do this, I always feel bad.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Vision, Church

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Hard Times, Leader, Vision

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.

  John C. Maxwell

  Community, Needs, Spending Time

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• I had 50 pastors, ministers, I had priests, I had a couple of rabbis in a big conference room in one of my buildings. And we're talking and I could see they really liked me. But I could also see they couldn't endorse me. I said, "Just out of curiosity, why?""Well, we can't do it because we'll lose our tax-exempt status."

  Donald Trump

  Couple, Talking, Curiosity

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things I will do very early in my administration is to get rid of the Johnson Amendment so that our great pastors and ministers and rabbis and - and everybody - and priests and everybody can go and tell and can participate in the process.

  Donald Trump

  Administration, Ministers, Amendments

  Source: time.com

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• Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Two, Different, World

  Source: inthesetimes.com

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• Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.

  Todd Burpo

  Struggle, Boys, Thinking

  "“Heaven is for Real” dad tells his story". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure whether or not I really had the call to be a minister. I spoke with a pastor of my home church and told him I was going to seminary. He said "Do you feel the call to be a minister?" and I said "Honestly, I don't. I know it's the greatest call you could have but I'm not feeling that call myself. He said "Well, you know, you're wrong. It's not the greatest call. The greatest call is whatever calling God has for you."

  Randall Wallace

  Home, Years, Careers

  "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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