Ministers Quotes - Page 15

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

Iain Duncan Smith

Football, Team, Party

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Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

James Surowiecki

Choices, Political, Risk

"The Age of Political Risk". www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2010.

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And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

Clarence Thomas

Thinking, Government, People

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You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.

Iyanla Vanzant

Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

"After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

Dionne Warwick

Grandfather, Earth, Able

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Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

Ellen G. White

Angel, Men, Satan

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God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.

Ellen G. White

Light, People, Shining

Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.955, Lulu Press, Inc

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The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

Ellen G. White

Attitude, Humble, Gestures

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A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.

Ellen G. White

Jesus, Attitude, Character

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I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

Ellen G. White

Voice, Evil, Warning

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Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

Ellen G. White

Sight, Mind, Wages

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Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

Ellen G. White

Decide Upon, Voice, People

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Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

Ellen G. White

Individual Effort, People, Church

Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.953, Lulu Press, Inc

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Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

Ellen G. White

Prayer, Heart, Humble

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Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

Tim Burton

Brother, Bunnies, Welcome

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Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?

J. K. Rowling

Jinx, Awful, Hello

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...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.

Louise Rennison

Numbers, Mad, News

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Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Oswald Chambers

Want, Connections, Buckets

Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.82, Discovery House

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When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and fellow beings. Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth...bringing messages of love, warning, reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.

Joseph Fielding Smith

Love, Mother, Brother

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We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.

Stephen Fry

Artist, Hands, Talking

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You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style.

J. K. Rowling

Style, Deny, Memorable Harry Potter

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I'll be your minister--" "Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind." "I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly. "Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?" "That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it." "My earrings?" "What earrings?

Megan Whalen Turner

Missing, Necklaces, Way

"The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

Dean Koontz

Dog, Trust No One, Taught

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.958, Bantam

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you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

Chuck Palahniuk

Teacher, People, Car

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.217, W. W. Norton & Company

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It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

George W. Bush

Running, June, Cameras

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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