Ministers Quotes - Page 24

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

James Henley Thornwell

Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.

Jon Stewart

Iraq, Spain, Troops

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I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

George W. Bush

Past, America, People

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We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

Salman Khurshid

Choices, Leader, Lucky

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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

Veerappa Moily

Country, Independent, Energy

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I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

Veerappa Moily

Government, Office, Asking

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In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Moshe Dayan

Should Have, Two, Defense

Private conversation with Rami Tal (1976), as quoted in Associated Press report, May 11, 1997.

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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

Wyclef Jean

Uncles, Daddy, Grandfather

"Q&A: Wyclef Jean on Bill Clinton and Haiti's New Revolution". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2010.

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Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

John Owen

Men, Vices, Corruption

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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

Benazir Bhutto

Want, Prime, Fats

"Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet, news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2007.

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What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom, England, Slave

Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Aug. 16, 1856-Aug. 7, 1857”

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By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

Silvio Berlusconi

Liars, Definitions, Prime

Italian Radio National Broadcast, January 18, 2006.

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I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: “You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.”

Vivian Balakrishnan

Keys, Order, Messages

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It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christian, Strong, People

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The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

D. Elton Trueblood

Catholic, Society, Church

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His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

J. Christopher Herold

War, Effort, Enemy

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Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

Howard Stern

Heart, Medicine, Sick

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Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

Peter De Vries

Time, Able, Should

"The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel".

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I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Winston Churchill

Kings, Order, Empires

Speech at Lord Mayor's luncheon, London, 10 Nov. 1942

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If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

Timothy Keller

Jesus, Practice, People

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Penguin

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It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Son, Suffering, Devil

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1245, Jazzybee Verlag

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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

Stewart Udall

Bed, Stories, Peace With God

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On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!"

Georges Clemenceau

War, Party, Rights

"Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.

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No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Neil Kinnock

War, House, Majority

"Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Ministry, Each Day, Way

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