Ministry Quotes - Page 3

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!

Jarrid Wilson

The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart

Sunday Adelaja

Be faithful in your calling and you will fulfill your ministry to the end

Sunday Adelaja

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

Bill Bryson

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

Megan McKenna

Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

Matt Perman

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Ron Suskind

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

Chris Matthews

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

Paul C. Nagel

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place whey are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. As busy, active, relevant ministers, we want to earn our bread by making a real contribution. This means first and foremost doing something to show that our presence makes a difference. And so we ignore our greatest gift, which is our ability to enter into solidarity with those who suffer.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.

Karl Barth

But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression, anger or pain. He loved people back to life. He would go anywhere, talk to anyone. And wherever He went, He would stop for the one-- the forgotten one, the one who was rejected, outcast, sick, even stone dead. Even a thief who was dying for his crimes on the cross next to Him. In the Kingdom of God's love there is no sinner who cannot come home.

Heidi Baker

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

D.R. Silva

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.

Kris Vallotton

Great is our calling, We dare not be idle.The saddle is in place,And Jesus is bridle.

Kari L. Greenaway

After Jesus' fast, he began healing, rescuing, redeeming. The Spirit filled up the emptiness Jesus created, launching him into ministry. In some supernatural way the abstinence from food was the catalyst for Jesus' unveiling; the real fireworks were next.

Jen Hatmaker

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

Heidi Baker

Dear church, John the baptist died for exposing the sins of others. Jesus died to actually pay for the sins of others.John was great, but we should not follow his model. Our model is Christ. So lets stop telling the world how bad their sin is and lets start sharing how good the Father has always been.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

Matt Chandler

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Outstanding success in life, leadership, business, marriage and ministry always come down to a test of whether or not you will make a sacrifice when no one else is watching. The key to our success is what we will do when no one will applaud us or even notice us.

Benjamin Suulola

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

Jody Cantrell Dyer

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

Soraya Diase Coffelt

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

Dwight L. Moody

I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can't please everybody all the time, no matter how hard you try. But the greatest honor of the office, from my perspective, is being invited into the lives of people at their very best moments and at their very worst moments.

Matthew C. Harrison

If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!

Sunday Adelaja

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

George Eliot

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.

Mandy Hale

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

Geraldine Brooks

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.

Henrietta C. Mears

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

Samuel E. Waldron

Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Prayer is a mighty ministry that any believer can have—anywhere, anytime, and in any circumstance.

Elizabeth George

The priesthood of Christ is “not according to the law of a fleshy commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life” (Heb. 7:16). Aaron was constituted high priest according to the powerless letter of the law, but Christ according to the powerful element of an indestructible life. Our High Priest is constituted of a life which nothing can conquer, but which rather conquers everything! It is a life which cannot be destroyed. A life which saves to the uttermost. The endless, eternal, divine, uncreated life. The resurrection life which has passed the test of death and Hades.

Witness Lee

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.

Todd Stocker

we have faith to sit in a chair, and continue to believe in its foundation that holds us up. If we have faith in God, the foundation will hold us both up, so its our decision to take the seat and trust him.

Trae R. Miller

Where did Jesus’ ministry resources come from? The Scriptures give eight sources of possible income for the moneybag carried by Judas. The following Scriptures will show that Jesus never asked the synagogue congregants for free-will offerings. Nor do we see the synagogue leaders asking people to make offerings to Jesus. The custom in Jesus’ time involved charity and taking care of the needs of travelers including those who preached?

Frank Chase Jr

Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry

Sunday Adelaja

We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well

Sunday Adelaja

If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us

Sunday Adelaja

As a minister of the Lord in whatever way the Lord decides to use you and with the gifts he gives you for the work, there is the tendency to start idolizing the work itself or the gifts that you forget it is the father who gave it to you. Who picked you up and dusted you from nothing and adorned you. You forget and make the work a god before him. Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me".-----This can be very subtle especially for social media ministry. You begin to love your social image over the word of God. You begin to dampen and tweak the word of God to appeal to a wider audience. You're suddenly no longer about the raw truth of the gospel. As the followers and likes increase you begin to get more and more addicted to the fruit of the works and the response to YOUR messages and posts. If a post doesn't do too well and get many likes and comments you are not happy. It hurts you deeply. That is how you know It has become about you.------If this is you and this message has touched your heart, if this post is like a mirror to your face, go back to God and ask for forgiveness. Ask God to forgive you for elevating yourself and your work as a god before him and return back to when it was just about loving him and preaching the good news. You probably may have noticed you lost the fire of inspiration you used to have at the beginning. This is why.

Daniel Friday Danzor

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Charles Dickens

The deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage.

Kevin Thoman

He stretches forth in our soul, Teaches our arms how to reach.Our feet He has shod,With His gospel of peace.

Kari L. Greenaway

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.

Anonymous

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Our real problem is not the pervasiveness of the darkness but a failure of the light. Light always dispels darkness. The glorious light of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ is still sufficient and available to those who reject self-reliance and return to His plan for biblical leadership. This return can reignite the radiance of the Gospel in transforming power.

Daniel Henderson

That’s the bittersweet joy of ministry. We see people healed, and then we watch them move on in victory. Sometimes, it means saying goodbye. We must learn to celebrate as our fledgling birds spread their wings and fly into freedom, even if that flight pattern takes them far away from us.

Katherine J Walden

You can take the minister out of the pulpit, but you can’t take the ministry out of the minister.

Katherine J Walden

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

I've got to tell you that my vocation, my true calling, is serving others. Medicine is my avocation; it's part of how I answer my calling, but it's not all of it. I minister to bodies, but I also minister to hearts and souls.

Doc

Second Corinthians speaks concerning the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. The ministry is not merely a matter of gift. A person may be able to speak fluently and eloquently and give many good illustrations and proverbs, but this is just a gift. What the church, the Body, needs today is the ministry.

Witness Lee

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