Trip Lee Quotes

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

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

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.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

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

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

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

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

When I was a little kid going to Methodist church, I actually envisioned one day that I would become a minister but I never pursed that.

I wanted to be a pastor. I was going to be a youth pastor. I mean, I play guitar; I like to make people laugh.

Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people.

I'd make a bad preacher.

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

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.

I was born into a family of preachers.

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

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

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

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.

I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

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

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

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