Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

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

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

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

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.

Our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach less.

The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.

I think I used to not know if I could be a good pastor because I think I had some things in mind that I thought were part of being a pastor that don't necessarily have to be.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

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

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

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 am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

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.

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

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

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

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

The highest service that men may attain to on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore, God more directly demands it of them.