The Perfect Pastor

From These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon (p. 37 in the paperback edition) (HT: to Lily and to Todd Bensel for helping me relocate this passage.)

The perfect pastor preaches exactly ten minutes. He condemns sin, but never hurts anybody's feelings. He works from eight in the morning until midnight and is also the church janitor. He is twenty-nine years old and has forty years experience. He makes fifteen house calls a day and is always in the office.