Browsing Topic Best Pastor Quotes

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only ‘special’ people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don’t think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

There is nothing–no circumstance, no trouble, no testing–that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is–that is the rest of victory!

Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

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.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible – what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it’s real? I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this–not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

In Seoul, Korea one night I spoke to about 1.3 million people and over a million of them indicated salvation decisions. They had a philosophy. Many of the Korean pastors told me that many were not sure of their salvation.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

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.

What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He’s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics.

Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, ‘What on earth are you doing?’ The sparrow replies, ‘I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.’The warhorse sneers– ‘Do you really think you’re going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?’ And the sparrow says, ‘One does what one can.’

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people’s company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

In 1989 at Greater Saint Steven Full Gospel Church, I gave my life to Christ. That’s pretty much where it all started for me. I was 23 years old at the time, right after my first year in the NBA. The pastor preached a message about being fully committed. That pretty much was me. I wasn’t fully committed. I was kind of in and out all of the time. So I just wanted to make a commitment.

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor’s preaching, then you’re a long way from being where you should be.

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it’s because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That’s the source of everything.

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.