Top 326 Pastor Quotes & Sayings

I want to be a pastor in a high school.

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 .

I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

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.

I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

I think I used to not know if I could be a good pastor because I think I had some things in mind that I thought were part of being a pastor that don't necessarily have to be.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Pastor Kerney Thomas to these hoes.. miwacles.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Bernice King, daughter of MLK, is an assistant pastor at New Birth.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.

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

The world needs a pastor, whether it knows it or not.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

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.

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

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

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

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.

I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.

Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.

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.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

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.

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.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor, my mom, she has such great faith.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

I'm not a pastor. I'm not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

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

During my school days, I was the darling of the pastor in my church.

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

Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

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

I come from a religious family - my father is a pastor, my uncle, my sister and her husband are a pastor team.

A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor.

I wanted to be a pastor. I was going to be a youth pastor. I mean, I play guitar; I like to make people laugh.

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

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a church, the other would be a missionary. I didn't particularly like snakes, so I decided I should probably be a pastor.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

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

When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.

I also admire my pastor, John K. Jenkins Sr. (First Baptist Church of Glenarden). My pastor taught me the importance of tithing and giving back, that it has to be at the top of my budget. And he is one of the most generous folks I know.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

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, tithers or non-tithers.

The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.