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“I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.”

“The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.”

People Believe Kids Given I Believe Youth Internet Equal Atheist Access Pastor Skeptic You Like It

Author:Josh McDowell

“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”

Men World Vision Teach Trouble Chiefs Curse Materialism Idealism Pastor Hallucinations Idealism And Realism

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.”

Church Pastor Reverends

Author:Joel Osteen

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

World Inspirational Motivational Motivation Spirituality Peace Change Inspiring Business Attitude Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Ministers Positive Attitude Changing The World Positive Thoughts Pastor Encouraging Things Change Changing Your Life Making Changes Insperational Make You Think Change Management Think Positive Power Of Positive Thinking Famous Inspirational Positive Change Change For The Better Great Change Inspirational Change Change Your Attitude Having A Positive Attitude Time For A Change Think Positive Be Positive Positive Attitude In Life Drive And Success Courage To Change Fear Of Change Change Your Thoughts Positive Thinking In Life Thoughts And Thinking Thoughts Of You Culture Change Business Change Changing Attitude Life And Inspirational Managing Change Bad Thoughts Work Place Mind Changing Lasting Change Staying Positive In Life Positive Motivational Positive Work Inspiration And Life Work Attitude Positive Day Permanent Change Something Bigger Than Yourself Short Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts Useful Thoughts

Book:Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence

Source: Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence

“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.”

People Dangerous Toxic Pastor God Image

Author:Rob Bell

“If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.”

People Ifs Knows Easy Involved Saved Pastor Congregation Pedestal

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.”

Thinking Believe Use Might I Believe Our Lives Calling Waste Backgrounds Believe In God Pastor Family Life Family Background

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.”

People Ifs Use Position Scary Ruins Pastor Scary Things Position Of Power

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.”

Courses Individual Roles Abstract Pastor

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Energy Term Imagination Worship Function Important Things Structure Cease Primaries Sunday Pastor My Imagination Pulpit Worship God

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.”

Done Father Names Activity Husband Passionate My Husband Yearning Pastor Centeredness

Author:John Piper

“The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.”

Believe Mean Authority Ultimate Pastor Elders Examining Infallible

Author:John Piper

“Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!”

“I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.”

People Church Opinion Vote Pastor Respecting Others

Author:Charles Stanley

“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.”

Thinking Differences Teach Teacher Authority Distinction Word Of God Pastor Called By God

Author:Charles Stanley

“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”

“The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.”

Guy President Church Class Wonderful Middle Branches Middle Class Pastor Militant Atlanta Reverends

Author:Julian Bond

“You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.”

Soul Earth Christian Remember Christianity Eternal Eternity Christian Inspirational Preparation Remembered Preparing Pastor Purpose Driven Life

Book:What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life

Source: What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life

“If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.”

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

Joy Feet Pastor April Quoting Salons

Author:Anne Lamott

“Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.”

“A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.”

Said Problem Mines Pastor Martyr

Book:The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be”

Thinking Way Should Doe Differences Sadness Perception Unhappy African American Unhappiness Pastor

Author:Creflo A. Dollar

“Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.”

Should Religion Faith Belief Doubt Believer Acknowledge Sufficient Pastor

Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.”

Years Said Facts Hurt Talking Crazy Bridges Jail Pastor Stolen Crazy Women

Author:Foxy Brown

“The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.”

Fear Doubt Anxiety Size Uncertainty Preacher Pastor Lenses Magnifying Glass

Book:Perfect Trust

Source: Perfect Trust

“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.”

Men Humans Sometimes Fine Mere Luxury Burned Oppressed Pastor Alas Purple Idleness Palaces Be A Man Man Of God Linen

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.”

Way Shows Heaven Path Preaching Show Me Pastor Reckless Steep Puff Hamlet And Ophelia Ophelia Hamlet Ophelia Libertine Polonius Mortality In Hamlet

Author:William Shakespeare

“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”

Mean Two Voice Ought Driving Scripture Sheep Thieves Pastor Gathering Supplies Driving Away

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To Timothy, Titus And Philemon (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To Timothy, Titus And Philemon (Annotated Edition)

“God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.”

God Religious Blessing Happy Christian Inspirational Bless Pastor

Author:Warren W. Wiersbe

“There is hope in forgiveness”

Christian Hope Religious Christianity Forgiveness Pastor Baptists There Is Hope Lord Forgive Me

Author:John Piper

“She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.”

Humans Made Shows Decision Havens Pastor Good Decision

Book:The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.”

Looks Children Helping Feelings Wanted Faces House Return Sand Pastor

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“We don't get to decide who God is.”

God Christian Decision Christianity Preacher Pastor Who God Is

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?”

Thinking God Action Christian Religious Christianity Worship Obligation Explanation Arrogance Preacher Pastor Deep Thought Explaining Make You Think Owing

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“Are we in love with God or just His stuff?”

Thinking Love God Christian Stuff Christianity God Love Preacher Pastor Deep Thought I Love God

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.”

Giving Hard Motivational Christian Christianity Preacher Pastor Doubtful

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.”

Want Hate Prison Factories Pastor

Author:John Grisham

“God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows”

Ifs Knows Giving God Religion Religious Prayer Knowing Asking Gods Will Pastor

Author:Timothy Keller

“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.”

Knows Christian Remember Faith Religious Hero Christian Inspirational Preacher Pastor Day

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.”

Moments Leadership Education Learning Pastor

Book:Thinking. Loving. Doing.

Source: Thinking. Loving. Doing.

“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.”

Love Inspirational Home Hands Beautiful Women Prayer Sky Sweet Purity Pastor Filling Something Better Homemaking

Author:J.R. Miller

“At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.”

Knows Years Said Given Happened Bears Forgiving Burden Spells Pastor Sermons Another Year Mckinley

Book:Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

Source: Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

“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”

Thinking Way Mean Real Religious Hot Conviction Accurate Pastor

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.”

Has Beens Religious Plans Strategy Entrepreneur Replaced Pastor Vocation Business Plan

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“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.”

Ends Done God Past Jesus Christ Religious Worship Christian Inspirational Saved Preacher Pastor Worship God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“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.”

Important Spirit Church Holy Witty Holy Spirit Biblical Pastor Tangible Congregation

Author:Alistair Begg

“Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Long Book Easy Pay Trouble Willing Conscience Doctors Diets Cowardice Laziness Pastor Guardian Long Life Doctor Who Tutelage

Author:Immanuel Kant

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