Max Lucado Quotes

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution: thank you for all you do.

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

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

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.

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

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

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

We need faith leaders like Eman Beshtawii.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ’s heart

Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

I used to be married to a pastor, and I had a church for two years. Pastors are just men, too, with a different job description than others. We're all called to bear one another's burdens. We're all called to pray for the sick. They do it on a larger scale, but they're just a man. A lot of women don't think that. Trust me. I know.

We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.