Ministers Quotes - Page 40

• Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Preaching The Gospel, Preaching, Sinner

  Charles Grandison Finney (2002). “The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney”, p.107, Harper Collins

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• I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Quality, Pay, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure whether or not I really had the call to be a minister. I spoke with a pastor of my home church and told him I was going to seminary. He said "Do you feel the call to be a minister?" and I said "Honestly, I don't. I know it's the greatest call you could have but I'm not feeling that call myself. He said "Well, you know, you're wrong. It's not the greatest call. The greatest call is whatever calling God has for you."

  Randall Wallace

  Home, Years, Careers

  "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Firsts, Affair, Imagine

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Heart, Government, Add

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.

  Delia Smith

  Office, Doe, London

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.

  N. T. Wright

  Dad, Businessman, Preacher

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.

  Warren Mundine

  Kids, Parent, Prime

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• I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew as opposition leader. He come in - he wasn't really good at the beginning when he was opposition leader. He won the confidence of the Australian people and got the job as Prime Minister. He grew in Indigenous affairs. To me, we just totally disagreed in it, but now we're very much one on one on it.

  Warren Mundine

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

  Ian McLeod

  Art, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up more money for the British Travel advertising in America. Said he, "Why does any American in his senses spend his vacation in the cold damp of an English summer when he could equally well bask under Italian skies? I can only suppose that your advertising is the answer." Damn right.

  David Ogilvy

  Summer, Italian, Vacation

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

  George McGovern

  Dad, War, Boys

  "George McGovern's Legacy: From Liberalism to Feeding the Hungry" by Matthew Larotonda, abcnews.go.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

  Bill Bright

  People, Tough Times, Eloquent

  Bill Bright (2003). “The Journey Home: Finishing with Joy”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Drama, People, Actors

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• Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

  Jerome Frank

  Doe, Spirit, Illness

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• If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.

  Martin Luther

  People, Church, Needs

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• My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Jobs, Father, Diplomats

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• We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain...and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.

  Billie Jean King

  Thinking, President, Germany

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• I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Want, London, Firsts

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• I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

  Billy Graham

  Misunderstood, Facts, Hell

  Billy Graham (2011). “Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrite, Matter, Easy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Jesus was a doer, and not only a talker. He led the way by example. He showed us how to live and minister to others.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Jesus, Doers, Way

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• If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Men, Average, Church

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• As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eight, Years, Important

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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