Pastor Quotes - Page 16

• I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.

  Saint Augustine

  Stress, Challenges, Needs

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• I think you could say every pastor is writing this book, Max on Life; for many it just never gets published. All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Gay, Uganda, Guy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.

  Matthew Carter

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.

  Max Lucado

  Struggle, Church, Trying

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Years, Southern

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• I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

  Roger Ross Williams

  Book, Saws, Well Known

  "Foiled in the United States, Anti-Gay Evangelicals Spread Hate in Africa". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I used to be married to a pastor, and I had a church for two years. Pastors are just men, too, with a different job description than others. We're all called to bear one another's burdens. We're all called to pray for the sick. They do it on a larger scale, but they're just a man. A lot of women don't think that. Trust me. I know.

  Niecy Nash

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.

  Bob Teague

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

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• The theater is the 'church' and when I'm on that stage I am the Priest/Pastor, it is a pure spiritual journey for me.

  Richard Cabral

  Spiritual, Journey, Church

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

  Luke Ford

  Religious, Men, Past

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• A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at the shock, the local pastor was asked to break the news gradually. The pastor made a customary call, and while visiting casually asked the old man what he would do with a half million dollars if he had it. The old man replied, "why, I'd give half of it to you." Whereupon the pastor dropped dead.

  Art Linkletter

  Winning, Past, Men

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• Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

  John Piper

  Accomplishment, Needs, World

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• Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

  John Piper

  Heart, Past, Preaching

  John Piper (2016). “A Camaraderie of Confidence: The Fruit of Unfailing Faith in the Lives of Charles Spurgeon, George Müller and Hudson Taylor”, p.21, SPCK

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• There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Appreciation, Reading, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Country, Religious, Jesus

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.

  William Edgar

  People, Devotion To God, Passionate

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• I don't know if I'll always be a pastor.

  Max Lucado

  Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• The Bible says we are to be salt and light. And salt and light means not just in the church and not just as a teacher or as a pastor or a banker or a lawyer, but in government and we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separation of church and state, people have internalized, thinking that they needed to avoid politics and that is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.

  Katherine Harris

  Teacher, Lying, Mean

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• Donald Trump in a church getting interrupted by the pastor because he started attacking Hillary Clinton.

  Bill Burton

  Past, Church, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Impact, Years, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sunday, Cities, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Space, Soul

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• When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, Simple, Church

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Once in a while you get people that maybe because of economic reasons, or have a social network, they get attracted. But it's a very tiny percent so that when we look at, you know, who are pastors and who are the head clergy of these congregations, they're overwhelmingly white, just a few African Americans, and those folks are usually called to what were formerly white congregations, or they started interracial church from the get-go.

  Michael Emerson

  White, People, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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