Ministry Quotes - Page 3

• If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Honor, Where You Are, Ifs

  Lysa TerKeurst (2005). “What Happens When Women Walk in Faith: Trusting God Takes You to Amazing Places”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers

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• Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

  Leonard Sweet

  Teamwork, Jesus, Solo

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• The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Jesus, Religion

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• I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Country, Passion, Home

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• If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Self, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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• Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.

  William Booth

  Heart, Fire, Humanity

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, Miracle

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.100, Bethany House

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• Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Holiness

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.9, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Half

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• Ministry is received, not achieved.

  Rick Warren

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 29, 2011

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• God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

  Mark Batterson

  Qualified, Marquee

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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• Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

  Francis Xavier

  Giving Up, Ambition, Christian Inspirational

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• Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Missionary, Students

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• I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Christian, Prayer, Light

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• No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Father, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

  Isaac

  Christian, Worst, Preacher

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• If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!

  Dwight L. Moody

  Children, Compassion, Living My Life

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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

  John Piper

  Passion, Names, People

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.

  Hudson Taylor

  Wisdom, Christian Inspirational, Religion

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• If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

  George Orwell

  War, Lying, Exercise

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.467, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

  John Piper

  Names, Missionary, Enthusiasm

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship

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