Church Ministry Quotes

• He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rise To Power, Individual Happiness, Mein Kampf

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• What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Men, Shining

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7”, p.129, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

  George Whitefield

  Blessing, People, Giving

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.880, CCEL

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• The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Doctrine, Traps

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• A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Church, Doctrine, Should

  Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.24

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• Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Two, Giving

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• The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Moments, Despise

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.1002, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

  John Owen

  Sorry, People, Church

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

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• In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

  James Denney

  Clever, Church, Wonderful

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• Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

  Howard Carter

  Church, Love Thyself, Let Me

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• If people like us, our life is good. If somebody doesn't like us, our whole life is tanked. That happens at your job, especially in church ministry. It seems like everybody's your boss sometimes. You're trying to keep everybody happy and pretty soon you realize you're filling yourself up with other people's opinions of you. That's a dangerous place to live.

  Mark Hall

  Jobs, Life Is Good, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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