Pastor Quotations | Page 2

The church is even parking vehicles on my side of the line, ... The pastor told me to grow up. He needs to grow up.

A lot of what we do are things that only priests used to do. It involves doing many things alongside the pastor and the rest of the team in care of the parish; things like some teaching, some sacramental preparation, visiting the sick, training people for roles in the ministry.

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.

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?

We're so blessed with our pastor and his wife. They live their lives in a way we're supposed to, in their caring for one another and having a focus on God.

We got to the First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, which had been converted into a shelter for several dozen mothers and newborn infants, and I found the pastor and asked him to put me to work, ... He told me to collect the trash.

That's the reason I'm still pastor of the congregation.

Couldn't be better, ... I've been wanting to talk to the pastor of this place and tell him everybody has such a good attitude, good ethics. Everything has been great.

OK, here's a Christian pastor writing a book that a Jewish lady is passing on to a Muslim lady.

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.