Ministry Quotes - Page 2

Some people will not make the decision to give Jesus love back no matter how great his love is. These folks are who I call “grace users”. They just take advantage of the Lord’s love and kindness. True disciples will love the Lord back. When someone truly opens their heart and falls in love with Jesus, wanting to be his disciple will come naturally to them. Christ’s love is compelling.

Sandra M. Michelle

When you are loved well, you want more of it. The only reason I believe anyone would not desire to be a disciple of Christ is because they fail to realize just how well loved they are by him. How could you not want to be with someone who loves you well?

Sandra M. Michelle

One major teaching of the Protestants that we the Protestants of today must go back to is the fact that the European Protestants did not emphasize five fold ministry the way we do today. Today our teaching on the five fold ministry only tends to view only those called to the five fold ministry as those called to be ministers, while the rest of the congregation is just viewed as laity who just go to secular jobs.

Sunday Adelaja

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Frank Herbert

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

Bill Hybels

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

Colin S. Smith

That amount of time is to be converted into some products, benefits, goods, services, welfare, ministry, but most of us actually truncate this amount of wealth on daily basis.

Sunday Adelaja

In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jen Pollock Michel

To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, “I am the equipper, not the doer.” If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry.

Sue Mallory

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your heart - the rare combination of passion, integrity, focus, faith, expectation, drive, hunger, and God’s anointing - God tends to infuse your ministry with ‘it’. He blesses your work. People are changed. Leaders grow. Resources flow. The ministry seems to take on a life of its own.

Craig Groeschel

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

D.R. Silva

This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have a strong tendency to refer to specialists. When someone does not feel well, we quickly think, 'Where can we find a doctor?' When someone is confused, we easily advise him to go to a counselor. And when someone is dying, we quickly call a priest. Even when someone wants to pray we wonder if there is a minister around.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.

Alisa Hope Wagner

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.

Harold L. Senkbeil

The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken.

John Updike

Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God’s time.

Sunday Adelaja

Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.

Gangai Victor

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship

John Paul Warren

I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?

James Carl Nelson

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

Kevin DeYoung

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

Stephen L. Carter

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

Stephen L. Carter

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

George F. Will

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

D.R. Silva

Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell

Bangambiki Habyarimana

As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.

Gary Rohrmayer

Worship is the launching pad for life.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

Charles Dickens

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

Beth Moore

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

Nancy Pearcey

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

David Brooks

It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

E.M. Forster

The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

Jim George

One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.

Thomas C. Oden

The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

Thomas C. Oden

Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered itself right out of existence. Demystification has dwindled into desacralization. The escape from routinization has become a convenient cover for the demise of repentance. The postmodern pastor is trying to learn anew to listen to the deeper range of feelings of others, without forgetfulness of the Word of God.

Thomas C. Oden

The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.

Thomas C. Oden

Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.

Richard Sibbes

The purpose of salt is to change the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Attracting attention to yourself in the Kingdom of God is like seducing the bride because you are the best man of the groom.

Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on

Sunday Adelaja

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

Witness Lee

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

Beth Moore

I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ’s church and take the Gospel everywhere.

Billy Graham

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

E.M.Bounds

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

Timothy J. Keller

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

Matt Perman

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.

Martin Luther

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

Richard J. Foster

Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.

Sunday Adelaja

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.

Ravi Zacharias

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

H.W. Brands

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Previous 1 2 3 4 Next

Ministry Quotes - Page 2

Related Topics