Ministry Quotes - Page 7

• I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.

  John C. Maxwell

  College, Years, Good Times

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want Something, Want, Want U

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• It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  People, Missing, Groups

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• He turns our weaknesses into His opportunities

  Graham Kendrick

  Opportunity, Weakness, Turns

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• Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.

  Katie Price

  Sound, Druggies, Locals

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• Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

  Richard Baxter

  Book, Light, Waste

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• Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Favors, Praise, Lord

  "Stephen Baldwin: The Jesus Freak of Hollywood". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Jesus was handling big money because that treasurer He had was a thief. Now you can't tell me that a ministry with a treasurer that's a thief can operate on a few pennies. It took big money to operate that ministry because Judas was stealing out of that bag. If you have a treasurer, that means you have a lot of money.

  John Avanzini

  Jesus, Mean, Thieves

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• The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Christian, Character, Years

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• Turning the pages of scriptural history from beginning to end, we learn of the ultimate pioneer-even Jesus Christ. His birth was foretold by the prophets of old; His entry upon the stage of life was announced by an angel. His life and His ministry have transformed the world. . . . May we ever follow Him.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Angel, Pioneers

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• We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

  Horace Bushnell

  Fashion, Jesus, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388, 1895.

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• Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.

  Walter Bagehot

  Daughter, Wife, Political

  "The English Constitution". Book by Walter Bagehot, Seventh edition. Chapter 5: "The House of Commons", p. 137, en.wikisource.org. 1894.

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• I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Real, Perfect, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Government, Worry

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hurt, People, Littles

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• The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

  Boyd K. Packer

  Target, Closest

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• If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Desire, World, Wonder

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• Because of Jesus Christ the world has changed, the divine Atonement has been made, the price of sin has been paid, and the fearful spectacle of death yields to the light of truth and the assurance of resurrection. Though the years roll by, His birth, His ministry, His legacy continue to guide the destiny of all who follow Him as He so invitingly urged.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Destiny, Yield

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• "Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us on the one truly essential issue, a premiss and condition for feeding his sheep, his lambs, his Church. May every ministry be based on this intimacy with the Lord; living from him is the measure of our ecclesial service which is expressed in the readiness to obey, to humble ourselves, as we heard in the Letter to the Philippians, and for the total gift of self.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Humble, Sheep

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• Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

  Frank Zindler

  Men, Contradiction, Power Trip

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• It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Years

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• Ministry is messy because sin is messy. Get over it, get a mop and start helping people clean up!

  Jud Wilhite

  People, Helping, Sin

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• The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

  Garry Robbins

  Wall, Silence, Crime

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