Ministry Quotes

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

T. D. Jakes

People, Branded, Superiors

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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

Each Day, Way, Helpful

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Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Prayer, Two, Giving

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Ministry is simply about loving the person in front of you.

Heidi Baker

Persons, Fronts

Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.35, Charisma Media

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God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.

Gary Haugen

People, Giving, Doe

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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

John Stott

Christian, Vision, Missionary

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God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

Hudson Taylor

Inspiring, Christian, Missionary

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If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

Rick Warren

Life Is, Ifs, Serving

Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.211, Zondervan

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Funny, Women

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The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Carl F. H. Henry

God, Christian, Religious

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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

Roland Allen

Missionary Zeal, Christian Inspirational, Intellectual

Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Craig Groeschel

People, Want, Reaching

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I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

David Wilkerson

Father, Challenges, Permit

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If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

David Livingstone

Wisdom, Kings, Inspiration

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As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

David Wilkerson

Crush, Pain, Godly

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A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Rick Warren

Perfect, Use, Bless

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When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.

Rick Warren

Jesus, Groups, Firsts

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I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

Larry Norman

Fighting, Careers, Earth

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God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Rick Warren

Painful Experiences, Painful

"The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

David Wilkerson

Men, House, Challenges

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Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

David Wilkerson

Faith, Three, Messages

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Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

David Wilkerson

Children, Latin, Men

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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

Harold J. Warner

Relationship, Jobs, Hardest Job

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One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

George Carey

Believe, Issues, Way

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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Vance Havner

Time, Jesus, Men

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