Ministers Quotes - Page 6

• No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

  Robert Peel

  Public Opinion, Opinion

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• I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

  Billy Graham

  Trust, Religious, Jesus

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Religious, Work

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Sep 22, 2011

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• Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

  Billy Graham

  Thank You, God, Thankful

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.28, Beacon Press

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• Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.

  Reverend Ike

  Helpful, Poor, Needy

  "The golden gospel of Reverend Ike" by Clayton Riley, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 1975.

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• With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Honesty, Freedom

  "Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities". Speech in Tokyo, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 1992.

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• Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Heart, Mind, Vacancy

  Thomas Chalmers (1855). “Sermons: Select Works”, p.250

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• God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it.

  Rod Parsley

  God, Dream, Religious

  FaceBook post by Rod Parsley from Jun 23, 2012

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• You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

  Eric Thomas

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Faith, Christian

  Alexander Maclaren (1869). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.57

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• But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy

  Running, Writing, Blood

  Paul Simon, Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1964). “Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom”

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• Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

  Billy Graham

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

  Billy Graham

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Nov 26, 2015

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• STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

  Joseph Simmons

  Past, Rapper, African American

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• God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

  Billy Graham

  God, Religious, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 12, 2014

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• Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2012

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• Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

  Billy Graham

  Sports, Christian, Religious

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Giving, Want

  Interview, Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 Oct. 1969

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• If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

  Brian Mulroney

  Prime, Objectives, Known

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• Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

  Winston Churchill

  Teaching, Prime, Headmasters

  My Early Life (1930) ch. 2

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• When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Three

  Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 1941

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

  Sinclair Lewis

  Inspiration, Impossible, Week

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