Pastor Quotes

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because a humble man is not self-absorbed. He seeks to understand why people are hurting him and takes responsibility for his part in their grief. Humility doesn’t dwell with anger or pride, and neither does God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My mother is my pastor She teaches me the BibleI love her as my mentorShe tells me to be humble!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don't need a prophet to wake you up from your bed; you need no archbishop to describe the size of your spoon for you. Remember, you are in the center of management of your own affairs when the time comes for you to act!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people.

~ James C. Dobson

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.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

~ Criss Jami

He had the tool to break down the walls that imprisoned his people. He had the tool to rip away the veil to the Holy of Holies so that his flock could come before the Lord and be cleansed, made whole, transformed, and have a personal, loving relationship with their creator. That very tool san on Hannah's bookshelf right now, gathering dust until Sunday morning. Her Savior was there, waiting to speak to her and show her the way home again, the way back to love. YOUR WORD IS LIFE! Why didn't more people understand that?

~ Francine Rivers

In serving as a pastor for over thirty years, I have seen some remarkable transformations and I’ve seen some big disappointments. I have two observations. First, where there has been lasting change, the common factor, in every case, is that the Word of God has had a significant entrance into the person’s life. Second, where godly change has failed to get started, or has slowly unraveled, the common factor, in every case, is that change has been attempted without significant engagement in the Scriptures.

~ Colin S. Smith

Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

A good shepherd always gives people freedom to choose, he doesn’t lay down conditions or use any kind of pretext to restrict people. This shepherd resembles Jesus and people will not even want to leave him.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

A real pastor will always show respect for people.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

~ Wayne Cordeiro

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

~ D.r. Silva

Human beings seem to have a perpetual tendency to have somebody else talk to God for them. We are content to have the message second-hand. One of Israel's fatal mistakes was their insistence on having a human king rather than resting on the theocratic rule of God over them. We can detect a note of sadness in the word of the Lord, 'they have rejected me from being king over them' (1 Sam. 8:7). The history of religion is the story of an almost desperate scramble to have a king, a mediator, a priest, a pastor, a go-between. In this way we do not need to go to God ourselves. Such an approach saves us from the need to change, for to be in the presence of God is to change.

~ Richard J. Foster

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

~ Erik Larson

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

A real pastor — a good shepherd — is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

~ Ben Zobrist