Ministry Quotes

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart.

Susannah Spurgeon

God sees it all and He gives you the chance to show faithfulness in your ministry to Him

Sunday Adelaja

Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English....Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry in public, with facility and acceptance.

Christmas Evans

You must know what God is expecting from you in the ministry that He has entrusted to you

Sunday Adelaja

We as pastors, as God’s ministers, must have right priorities. Only then we will become successful in ministry.

Sunday Adelaja

Unless you are led and directed by the Holy Spirit, you will never be truely successful in your ministry.

Sunday Adelaja

Believers who come to know the Scripture in a living way, in both knowledge and Spirit, can in turn, use this Word to minister to people around them.

Henry Hon

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

George Eliot

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

E B White

Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift.

Thomas C. Oden

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

Richard Baxter

I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing that your ministry is how much of a tip you leave when you eat in a restaurant; when you leave a hotel room whether you leave it all messed up or not; whether you flush your own toilet or not. Your ministry is the way that you love people. And you love people when you write something that is encouraging to them, something challenging. You love people when you call your wife and say, 'I'm going to be late for dinner,' instead of letting her burn the meal. You love people when maybe you cook a meal for your wife sometime, because you know she's really tired. Loving people - being respectful toward them - is much more important than writing or doing music.

Rich Mullins

The key to being a successful pastor is to be able to minister supernaturally, be a pastor without tears, in learning of Him, learning from His life.

Sunday Adelaja

As salvation is personal, so also is the territory every individual has to possess.

Sunday Adelaja

[O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).

Richard Baxter

paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.

Charles Murray

The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

Paul C. Nagel

One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.

Ransom Riggs

You are all seen by a God who is proud of those day to day things you do. Ministry doesn't always mean speaking at a pulpit often it comes dressed as everyday work. Don't ever doubt that what you do matters, don't believe that a inspirational speaker or pastor is more worthy then you, for ministry is a state of mind not a career path. God can and will use you in mighty ways through your day to day normal routine.

Rachel Hamilton

No life is messier than one in ministry

Jerry B. Jenkins

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

H.W. Brands

Cast all the problems and troubles that people come to you with onto Him, and you can relax and stay healthy

Sunday Adelaja

God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that’s why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry.

Sunday Adelaja

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

Sue Mallory

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

Elizabeth George

All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test—if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

[2 Corinthians 1:21-22] says that God has anointed us, has sealed us, and has given us the pledge, the foretaste, of the Spirit. If we are going to minister something of Christ to others, we have to experience Christ by the working of the cross, and the working of the cross is for the anointing, the sealing, and the pledge of the Spirit.

Witness Lee

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

Watchman Nee

There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. It can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, and this mistrusts in turn brings forth war.

Megan McKenna

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

Watchman Nee

The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.

Megan McKenna

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Richard J. Foster

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Joseph Campbell

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

Lynne Olson

A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.

Sandra M. Michelle

Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Joseph Campbell

Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world.

Bono

What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.

Geraldine Brooks

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

Geraldine Brooks

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

Philip Zaleski

Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.

Jen Pollock Michel

I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

Beth Moore

It is by suffering that Christ brings it in to the kingdoms of this world

L. Michael Morales

If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly made up of little words, little deeds, little prayers, little sympathies, adding themselves together in unwearied succession. The Gospel is full of divine attempts to help and heal, in the body, mind and heart, individual men. The completed beauty of Christ's life is only the added beauty of little inconspicuous acts of beauty -- talking with the woman at the well; going far up into the North country to talk with the Syrophenician woman; showing the young ruler the stealthy ambition laid away in his heart, that kept him out of the kingdom of Heaven; shedding a tear at the grave of Lazarus; teaching a little knot of followers how to pray; preaching the Gospel one Sunday afternoon to two disciples going out to Emmaus; kindling a fire and broiling fish, that His disciples might have a breakfast waiting for them when they came ashore after a night of fishing, cold, tired, discouraged. All of these things, you see, let us in so easily into the real quality and tone of God's interests, so specific, so narrowed down, so enlisted in what is small, so engrossed in what is minute.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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