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Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth. -- Eugene H. Peterson
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds. -- Dillon Burroughs
Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God. -- John C. Maxwell
Pastors spend a good bit of time helping people with their sin. Who helps them with their sin? -- Johnny Hunt
Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort. -- T. B. Joshua
Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them. -- Pope Francis
Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe. -- Paul Rusesabagina
Gay marriage within mainline denominations is gaining traction. Skewed pastors and even the government can't trump the Bible on this issue. Pastors: stand! -- Steve Camp
Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview." -- Timothy Keller
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. -- John Ortberg
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive. -- Eugene H. Peterson
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
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
It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species. -- Pope John Paul II
Adoration outside Holy Mass prolongs and intensifies what has taken place in the liturgical celebration and makes a true and profound reception of Christ possible. I . . . warmly recommend, to Pastors and to all the faithful, the practice of Eucharistic adoration -- Pope Benedict XVI
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials. -- Pope Francis
It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents. -- Mallory Ortberg
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. -- Luke Ford
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry? -- James Harvey Robinson
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. -- Ziggy Marley
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation. -- Robert Rainy
Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility. -- Pope Francis
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. -- H. L. Mencken
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen. -- Randall Terry
We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family. -- Mitt Romney
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God. -- Pope Francis
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen. -- Eugene H. Peterson
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture. -- Dallas Willard
My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor. -- Mallory Ortberg
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. -- John Nelson Darby
The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies. -- Eugene H. Peterson
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years. -- Pope Francis
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. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church. -- Kevin DeYoung
Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes. -- Eugene Kennedy
Today, more pastors than ever need profound encouragement and rejuvenation. -- Will Graham
Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without. -- John C. Maxwell
Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for. -- Matthew Carter
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer. -- David Wilkerson
Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader. -- John C. Maxwell
Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision. -- John C. Maxwell
There are a lot of pastors who have a vision and have not yet seen it become a reality. -- John C. Maxwell
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. -- Max Lucado
If vocational holiness is to be anything more than a pious wish, pastors must dive to the ocean depths of prayer. -- Eugene H. Peterson
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb? -- Chuck Baldwin
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans. -- Rachel Held Evans
Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it. -- R. C. Sproul
It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil. -- James Robison
Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit! -- Eric Ludy
For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience. -- John C. Maxwell
Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser. -- Criss Jami
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
It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things". -- John C. Maxwell
Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community -- Pope Benedict XVI
Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read. -- Larry Gatlin
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
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 Foster
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'? -- Leonard Ravenhill
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
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
You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach. -- Alistair Begg
All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation. -- Max Lucado
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
You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors. -- John Henrik Clarke
I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders. -- Henry Cloud
It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness, -- Mark Driscoll

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