Pastors Quotes

“The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!”
― John Paul Warren

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.”
― John Paul Warren

“There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.”
― John Paul warren

“A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.”
― John Paul Warren

“I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!”
― John Paul Warren

“I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.”
― John Paul Warren

“Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike.”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale.”
― John Paul Warren

“Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.”
― John Paul Warren

“In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.”
― Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

“Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.”
― John Paul Warren

“We must admit that simply knowing the contents of the Bible is not a sure route to spiritual growth. There is an aweful assumption in evangelical churches that if we can just get the Word of God into people's heads, then the Spirit of God will apply it to their hearts. That assumption is aweful, not because the Spirit never does what the assumption supposes, but because it excused pastors and leaders from the responsibility to tangle with people's lives. Many remain safely hidden behind pulpits, hopelessly out of touch with the struggles of their congregations, proclaiming the Scriptures with a pompous accuracy that touches no one. Pulpits should provide bridges, not barriers, to life-changing relationships.”
― Larry Crabb, Inside Out

“It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.”
― Patrick Henry

“Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.”
― John Paul Warren

“We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.”
― Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

“I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences.”
― John Paul Warren

“The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!”
― John Paul Warren

“Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him”
― John Paul Warren

“Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.”
― John Paul Warren

“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.”
― John Paul Warren

“Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.”
― John Paul warren

“Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.”
― Dr Paul Gitwaza

“Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.”
― John Paul Warren

“Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches

“If there be any feeding of Christ, any drop of heavenly dew, or any spark of God's good Spirit within you, stir it up; be careful to build and edify, first yourselves, and then your flocks in this most holy faith. I say, first yourselves; for he who will set the hearts of other men on fire with the love of Christ, must himself burn with love. It is want of faith in ourselves, my brethren, which makes us retchless (careless) in building others. We forsake the Lord's inheritance, and feed it not. What is the reason of this? Our own desires are settled where they should not be. We ourselves are like those women who have a longing to eat coals, and lime, and filth: we are fed, some with honour, some with ease, some with wealth: the gospel waxeth loathsome and unpleasant in our taste: how should we then have a care to feed others with that which we cannot fancy ourselves? If faith wax cold and slender in the heart of the prophet, it will soon perish from the ears of the people. (Sermon on part of St Jude's Epistle, p. 552)”
― Richard Hooker