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A pastor with no experience in a church your size or slightly larger. A pastor with a lawsuit or one
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Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War ...
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Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.
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Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
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for the French clergy,
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The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
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A minister may be diligent in his work, regular in his family, resident with his people and attentive to them, and in many respects exemplary in his outward conduct, and yet not preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified.32
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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The modern preacher who devotes his energies to church administration, to counseling, and to preaching sermons to people, most of whom have already obeyed the Gospel, has no close parallel in the church of the first century.
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Vicars, he often thought, are essentially God's lawyers on the earth. Interpreters of the law, the finders of nuance, sifters through rationalizations to get at the truth or the need of the moment.
Guessers, in other words.
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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.
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To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
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The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.
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I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.
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Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.
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A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
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I was born into a family of preachers.
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Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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The chief business of the Christian minister.
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There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.
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To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books.
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what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?
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Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
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Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
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A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.
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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.
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The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
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pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to handle bruised reeds without breaking them and dimly burning wicks without quenching them.
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Pastor-theologians exist to embody the evangelical mood, an indicative declaration ("He is risen! He is Lord!") and a concomitant way of being that is attuned to the world as already-not-yet made new in Jesus Christ.
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perfect Christian characters, seeking by diligent study and earnest prayer to gain the training essential for acceptable service in the cause of God.
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He who honestly instructs reverences God.
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The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness
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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 ...
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Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
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What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.
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Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was the
business only of the clergy to care for souls.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Edward Markquart, a brilliant homoletician, wrote: People want their preachers to be authentic human beings ... who experience the same feelings and struggles as the laity, who do not hide behind the role of reverend so and so.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.
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One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
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When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high as he
-from his resignation letter to Graham's Magazine
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I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
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It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.
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The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.
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If you reverend God, you shall respect all souls.
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I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
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I'm a lapsed altar boy.
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A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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What position is nobler than that of a spiritual father who claims no authority and yet is universally esteemed, whose word is given only as tender advice, but is allowed to operate with the force of law?
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...you don't need a calling to minister love...
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Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.
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Pastors and ministry leaders need continuing education because the basics of their occupational challenges were not taught in their educational institutions.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
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preacher's tone:
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We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
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Many forget that most of the greatest theologians God has given to the church were also pastors and teachers in the local church.
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.
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Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.
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What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?
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You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
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Prepare the preacher more than you prepare the sermon.
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.
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Pastors are over-extended taking care of a few hundred sheep in their church
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If a pastor focuses only on teaching, he grows members with big ears and rears but tiny hands and hearts.Service is MODELED not taught.
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His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.
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the vicar. "Hath this child already
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In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life
to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.
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He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
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I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.
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The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
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Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.
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Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.
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We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.
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The person who understands that God is the only One who builds, becomes His beloved. And to that kind of pastor God will give sleep.
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This is the ministry and its work
not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
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He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.
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If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
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Hey, I was raised in the church.
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As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
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Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.
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I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.
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I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.
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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
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The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.
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What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
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Preachers, however eloquent they are, are rarely heard as readily as pastors. After all, shepherds are sheep lovers, and the sheep are dependent upon their shepherds, who love them even before they listen.
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There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.