pastor

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1. pastor - Noun

2. pastor - Verb

Meaning

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

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The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. Josh McDowell

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both. John Calvin

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. Shane Claiborne

A prophet such as we could use again today, strong, zealous, angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders, the masses, indeed the whole world. (Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring, 1846, regarding Mendelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year) Felix Mendelssohn

If it rains on the pastor it drops on the vicar. French Proverb

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