Pastors Quotations

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.

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.

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

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.

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.

Our response will include church members, their neighbors and adjacent communities, ... It will be up to the state coordinator and local pastors to decide on any expansions based on available resources.

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.

Pastors and spouses and staff members were so involved in ministry to people after disasters that nobody was ministering to them. They were exhausted.

Texans have a right to know who is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get pastors to support the governor's reelection campaign.

It could open up the floodgates to pastors and churches across the state. The Constitution and the case law say that internal church matters are to be decided by the individuals who make up those organizations.

The pastors have to rise to the occasion. That's the bottom line.

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?

What I've always appreciated about this church is that the pastors are able to give us a sense of the historical perspective of the scripture for the week. It puts things in context and helps us understand what might otherwise be obscure, giving it contemporary significance. What's so amazing about Rev. Therese is the depth of her knowledge as a scholar of the Bible because of her theological training and focus.

What was happening, you had pastors who had been gearing up for all of their life to go plant a church somewhere . . . and now, all of the sudden, they're realizing there's no land out there.

It would be easier to go out and build anything in the world than it is (to build) churches. But to visit with pastors years later and find out (their congregations) have tripled in size because of the building you gave them, that's just extremely rewarding.

Adam Hamilton is one of the most balanced, healthy pulpit pastors in America. Kansas City is very fortunate to have him in the metro.

Anybody who hears the word about the movie, ... should talk to their pastor and ask to do it at their church. If they have a DVD player and a screen, they can do it. There is curriculum that can be downloaded from the website that pastors can give to their people for studies and outreaches to their community. Everything is there. We just need to get the word out.

And I just started a church. I called it the World's Folk Art Church. I bought this old church. There was no deacons or pastors or anything.

It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong,

The idea is to minister to pastors and share with them what God has taught me over 50 years of ministry,

But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.