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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
Pastor of the Warsaw Baptist Church, Dr. Peters was tall, gaunt, and pale, with a weak damp smile and cold damp palms: shaking his hand was like being forced to grasp the flaccid penis of a hypothermic zombie.
Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15
You can call me Pastor-and before Mr. Sox Fan gets his panties in a wad, I want everyone to know I'm legit. I went online, took a minister's course in under an hour, and I'm ordained, baby.
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness
your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture ... He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
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 ...
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.
The church doesn't belong to the pastor; it belongs to Jesus Christ.
If your minister comes to you frankly, tells you of your sin, and warns you faithfully, thank God for him. He is your best friend; he is a heaven-sent man. But if a minister speaks smooth, oily words to
My grandpa was a preacher.
I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.
...moved by his own sermon.
O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.
the vicar. "Hath this child already
As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.
Are you a religious man, Mr. Williams?" "No, ma'am. I reckon I'm not. But I do enjoy a relationship with my Savior. Will that do?
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.
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.
I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).
Spare neither labor in the study, prayer in the closet, nor zeal in the pulpit. If men do not judge their souls to be worth a thought, compel them to see that their minister is of a vex], different opinion.
There's something about you that smells a little of a Christian priest. I find it offensive.
A pastor with no experience in a church your size or slightly larger. A pastor with a lawsuit or one
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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
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.
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can't take the ministry out of the minister.
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.
Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.
I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.
A Franciscan Benediction
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.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
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.
Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.
I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
Yep. The tingle in my groin is unmistakable. I've got the hots for the good reverend. I thought I was going to hell before, but this pretty much cements it.
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
God has ordained you for your own assignment in the Kingdom
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.
I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev.
I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping.
As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
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
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.
I've always been asked, "What type of character would you love to play?," and I've always said a pastor.
A man can have no greater honour than to be accepted by God as an able Minister of the gospel
Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God.
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.
Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish pastor and writer from the mid-1800s, said, "The greatest need of my congregation is my own personal holiness."1
I'm a lapsed altar boy.
The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.
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.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
You've already said this is your dream job. And forgive me if I'm wrong, but I promised before God, Reverend Walsh, and a congregation of our nearest and dearest to 'cherish you, uphold your hopes and dreams, and keep you safe at my side.'
Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.
I teach Sunday school, motherf*****.
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
As Earl Lautenslager writes, "A minister without theology is like an engineer without physics or a doctor without anatomy. He'll kill you."[
To be a minister of the Word in any capacity, one MUST experience a call.
Bien predica quien bien vive.
He who lives well is the best preacher.
No, I've never truly been a minister.
No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.
The ministry of a pastor is not a ministry you should ever carry on your own shoulders. It has to be put into the temple of the Lord, who Himself is our Sabbath.
I'm Johnny Christ, and I play the tambourine.
The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.
The only way into a ministry that sees people's lives change, that brings joy and power and electricity without authoritarianism, is through preaching the gospel to deconstruct both legalism and relativism.
Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.
I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.
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
The Lord called me to plant a church.
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men
You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.
I believe every minister of the gospel is called to this ministry first of all. The ministry of light, the ministry of destruction of darkness, the ministry of setting people free from ignorance.
Following revelations that he fathered a love child, the good Reverend Jesse Jackson - or should we say the 'very' good Reverend - is enduring the scandal with the help of family and friends. A scandal which gives clearer meaning to the Rainbow Coalition's Operation 'Push'.
There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until new apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking.
Be faithful in your calling and you will fulfill your ministry to the end
As me old granny used to say before they carried her home to glory, there's three parts to a good sermon. First The Hook, then lay on The Guilt, then you deliver The Sting. I'll be sending the collection plate round shortly.
Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.