John Wycliffe Quotes

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

Our duty as Clergymen is to guide people through the commandments of God. We have no power, nor any authority, to give or declare laws against the laws of God

How indifferent are men to this carpenter or that fisherman, who has no word to speak of adventure or of wealth, but has only the word of God to proclaim, and has no credentials but that he comes in the name of the Lord.

I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.

I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

I've been known to preach.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

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.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it.

I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.