Paula White Quotes

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

I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

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

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

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

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

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

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

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

I'd make a bad preacher.

I write all my sermons.

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

I was born into a family of preachers.

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

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

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

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

Not everyone can lead worship.

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

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.