Justin Welby Quotes

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

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

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.

And then my husband works every second weekend, sermons on Sunday, baptising on Saturdays, weddings.

I want to be a pastor in a high school.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

I write all my sermons.

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

I was born into a family of preachers.

Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

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.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.