Ministers Quotes - Page 28

• The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Judging, Saint, Christ

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• I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Thinking, Important

  "Inside Right: A Study of Conservatism". Book by Ian Gilmour, p. 134, 1977.

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• Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Judging, Political

  "Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel". Book by Robert Boothby, pp. 183-84, October, 1978.

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• Do what Jesus says... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Jesus, Leader, Church

  "Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind". Book by John R. Sommerfeldt, 2004.

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• I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Want, Spirit, Hundred

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 320), 1895.

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• The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Passion

  1821 Adonais, stanza 9.

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• The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hypocrisy, Support, Might

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• Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Men, White

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• Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

  Robert Graves

  Home, Fighting, Men

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.

  Henry James

  Brother, Real, Artist

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• This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Quality, Bishops

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Stupid, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

  Evan Esar

  Husband, Regret, Fees

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• There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

  Horace Mann

  Work, Race, Employment

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.47

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• Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.

  Cynthia Carroll

  Country, Assessment, Support

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• I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

  Wilson Mizner

  Want, Priests, Rabbi

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

  Abdallah II

  Moving, Ambition, Israel

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Kings, Character

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.232

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• It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Children, School

  "Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, 1978.

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• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

  Florence Nightingale

  Jesus, Passion, Men

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.

  William Mountford

  Nature, Clouds, Earth

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.155

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• I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

  Joel Osteen

  Real, People, Stuff

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

  Julia Gillard

  Hard Work, Views, Vision

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Long, Wish, Stories

  Peter S. Beagle (2009). “We Never Talk about My Brother”

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• A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Doctors, Self, People

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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