Pastor Quotes - Page 20

• You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Would Be, Shifting

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• My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer,' when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.

  Richard Dawkins

  Kings, Prayer, Dust

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.157, HMH

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• My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

  Rob Bell

  People, Toxic, Dangerous

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• Forgiveness is constructed in the DNA of the persecuted. One Egyptian pastor this spring delivered a sermon titled, "A Message to Those Who Kill Us." In it he quoted Jesus, declaring the fact that the church would refuse to hate the terrorists, but would instead forgive them, pray for them, and love them. This is one of the reasons why so many terrorists are coming to Jesus.

  Johnnie Moore, Jr.

  Jesus, Hate, Spring

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.

  Alistair Begg

  Witty, Biblical, Important

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• I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

  Jeremy Lin

  Thinking, Would Be

  Interview With Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Ideas, Grace

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

  Jonathan Cain

  Girlfriend, Children, Blessing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose.

  Dallas Willard

  Book, People, Purpose

  Source: renovare.org

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• I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Use

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• We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

  Max Lucado

  Weekend, Play, Church

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I take my role seriously as a pastor.

  Jesse Jackson

  Roles

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• My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

  Max Lucado

  Maturity, Feelings, Church

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.'

  Curtis Jackson

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Church

  "Money talks". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2003.

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• Pastor Kerney Thomas to these hoes.. miwacles.

  Drake

  Humble, Cocky, Hoe

  Song: Play Ball

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• If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Vision, Church

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
  unconverted church members.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Past, Men

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• 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 for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.

  Karl Barth

  Church, Matter, Barbarians

  Karl Barth (2005). “God In Action: Theological Addresses”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, School

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• Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Two, Different, Speak

  Source: inthesetimes.com

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• Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

  John Grisham

  Hate, Want, Prison

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• We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

  Tim Hawkins

  Mind, Youth, Language

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• Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married [M/M Eymard], had foretold to them that they would have a son who would become a priest and founder of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament. During the months she bore Peter Julian, Mrs. Eymard used to visit the parish church and offer him to the hidden God of the tabernacle.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Father, Blessed, Son

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• It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Law, Church, Speech

  "Pope Benedict XVI on the Issues", www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2008.

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