Christopher Love Quotes

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

His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

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

Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

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.

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.

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.

I'm at least smart enough to know I could never fill Billy Graham's shoes, but I'm grateful he gave me an opportunity to help him finish his race on earth well and to continue his life's work.

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

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

My job is to preach and preach and preach.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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

The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.