James Green Somerville Quotes

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

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

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

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

I think my family sees me playing a pastor on TV and thinks that's a way of saying I have the calling, too.

I never called myself into ministry. God called me when I was 18 years old to preach the Gospel so I've preached the Gospel.

I am a youth minister, ordained by the Riverside Church in upper New York. But to declare myself a minister and begin to preach from the pulpit, from the Bible, to a congregation and to build a church, so to speak - I don't have a desire for that.

God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.

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

The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

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

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

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.

I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

My father has been faithful to the calling that God gave him: that is, to preach the Gospel... He has presented Christ to every person that God has put before him.

There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a church, the other would be a missionary. I didn't particularly like snakes, so I decided I should probably be a pastor.

The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.

I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.

I put a lot of my studies into my music and my writing. I want to be able to address real life issues in a way that not only takes God into account but takes his perspective as we see in His Word. I have a strong desire to be pastor that - I do think it's in my future, but I'm not sure how soon. I do this as a season of preparation for that.