Ministers Quotes - Page 39

• We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.

  Sergei Ivanov

  War, Russia, Defense

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• Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

  Oswald Chambers

  Giving, Exhausted, Used

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.90, Discovery House

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• Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

  Billy Sunday

  Names, Hell, Repent

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Congratulations, Pride

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• If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?

  George Whitefield

  Kings, Names, Issues

  George Whitefield (1812). “Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield”, p.412

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• The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be denied nor adequately explained by a negative philosophy.

  Michael J. Nelson

  Philosophy, Self, Suffering

  Michael J. Nelson (2009). “Mike Nelson's Mind over Matters”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Iron, Prime, Convincing

  "Screen Shot" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2012.

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• ....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

  James Burgh

  Army, Differences, People

  James Burgh (1774). “Political Disquisitions: Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses”, p.476

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• It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Earthquakes, Issues

  "Voodou Priests And Doctors Are On The Frontline Of Haiti’s Mental Health Care" by Anastasia Moloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2015.

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• My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.

  Joseph Losey

  Jobs, Home, Heaven

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• There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Differences, Debate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• At home, Danes try to resolve their problems amicably so it's just surreal to see these violent pictures on TV. But as the prime minister, I can't be controlled by my emotions.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Home, Trying, Tvs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers and what went on in the Black church, I was more caught up with those who were in Cadillacs and shiny suits than I was with those who were Kingian in their style.

  Harry Belafonte

  Attitude, Catholic, Black

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.

  Edward H. Rulloff

  Crowds, Want, Praying

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• The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction.

  David Hume

  Acceptance, Men, Yield

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.73, Stanford University Press

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• The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.

  William Hartung

  Art, Leader, President

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• Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

  Mike Huckabee

  Apology, Baptists

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• Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

  Barack Obama

  Black, Church, Needs

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• Seek guidance for outer action, but be even more concerned with the desires of the heart, that they be consistent with the character of the Lord Jesus Christ. Never did He call upon men for protection, nor even upon angels, although they were sent to minister to Him. It was His own inner unification with the Father's heart that effected His preservation against all evil that was directed against Him. Even so, your own heart purity determines the extent of your personal preservation.

  Frances J Roberts

  Jesus, Father, Heart

  Frances J. Roberts (2013). “On the Highroad Of Surrender - Updated”, p.156, Barbour Publishing

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• The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.

  Jean-Claude Trichet

  Government, Texas, United States

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• What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Israel, Firsts

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• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

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• Ministers and merchants love nobody.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Merchants

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.429

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• A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, Office, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, President, Chance

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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