Pastor Quotes - Page 15

• The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

  Paul Smith

  Past, Opportunity, Leader

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• All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Forgiving, Needs

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God’s presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Mean, Color

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• At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

  Donald Miller

  Years, Forgiving, Mckinley

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, House, Feelings

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

  Joel Osteen

  Church, Reverends

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

  T. B. Joshua

  Comfort, Edification, Sin

  "Prophetic Birth - A Wednesday Wonder". All Voices, June 15, 2009.

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• 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 congregation.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Thinking, Healthy

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• Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

  Eric Bentley

  Running, Spring, Flower

  Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press

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• Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

  Mark Batterson

  People, Desire, Driving

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• I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

  Mark Batterson

  Church, Breathe

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• I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that violate our sincerely held religious beliefs. We have to stand up and fight for religious liberty. That's where this fight is going.

  Bobby Jindal

  Christian, Religious, Fighting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.

  Joe Gibbs

  Mother, Kids, Special

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• To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . . . even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern. . . .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Teacher, Religious, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.390, Cambridge University Press

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• Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humanity, Church, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Teacher, Doctors, Want

  "On the moral high ground' by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2008.

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• We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room] last year, in 2014, but we still had the church pray over us , before the movie hit theatres, and the pastor was asking God to bless the film, and so we're very excited about what's happening .

  Stephen Kendrick

  War, Blessing, Past

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row and I didn't win because I was the toughest, the roughest or the baddest. I won when I was training for the contest, I told my pastor "They're having a contest and when I win the contest I'm a give you the money so you can buy food and clothes for the less fortunate people in the community." That was what Mr. T was about, that was back in 1979. I didn't have a car then but that's what I'm about.

  Mr. T

  Winning, Men, Years

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Decision, Made, Shows

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

  Wyclef Jean

  Dad, Kids, Church

  "We Played Two Truths And A Lie With Wyclef Jean And The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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• As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.

  Max Lucado

  Exercise, People, Interesting

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.

  Robert Nugent Lynch

  God, Opportunity, Past

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• I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

  Barack Obama

  Church, Christ, Jeremiah

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• Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

  Ralph Martin

  Buenos Aires, Asking, Praying

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.

  Eric Ludy

  Passion, Voice, Firsts

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