Ministry Quotes - Page 9

• Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Ministers

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• We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Encounters

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.70, Orbis Books

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• The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

  Paul Smith

  Past, Opportunity, Leader

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• All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Country, Dumb, World

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.71, Random House

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• When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the feeling. When the attack comes from within, no such indulgence is shown. 'He was one of us,' runs the refrain.

  Michela Wrong

  Running, Feelings, Outsiders

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• I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

  Phil Keaggy

  Integrity, Men, Balance

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• Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Expression, Careers

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.

  Prince Charles

  Book, Angel, Heaven

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• Sarcastic Science, she would like to know,
  In her complacent ministry of fear,
  How we propose to get away from here
  When she has made things so we have to go
  Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show
  Us how by rocket we may hope to steer
  To some star off there, say, a half light-year
  Through temperature of absolute zero?
  Why wait for Science to supply the how
  When any amateur can tell it now?
  The way to go away should be the same
  As fifty million years ago we came-
  If anyone remembers how that was
  I have a theory, but it hardly does.

  Robert Frost

  Sarcastic, Stars, Zero

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• Too often, however, the church professes its faith but is unsure how to practice it. Even some of my seminary students come to theology classes somewhat reluctantly, assuming that doctrine is neither practical nor relevant to their future ministry.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Practice, Class, Church

  Source: exiledpreacher.blogspot.com

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• Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Politics, Infuriating, Counterproductive

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• The founder of every ex-gay ministry in America has proved to be an extraordinary failure. The two founders of Exodus International, [the world's largest 'ex-gay' organization], divorced their wives to move in together.

  Wayne Besen

  Moving, Gay, Organization

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• Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Vision, Agendas

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, p.376, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Frustration, Focus, Energy

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• And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.20, Barron's Educational Series

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• Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

  Albert Camus

  Men, Two, Four

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Thinking, Giving

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.200, Random House

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• I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.

  Neil T Anderson

  Sacrifice, Blood, Satanic

  Neil T. Anderson, Rich Miller (2009). “Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ”, p.207, Gospel Light Publications

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• I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago.... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate. They conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter at a time of great stress in my marital life.... I was set up as part of a scheme to co-opt me and obtain some advantage for themselves over me in connection with their hope for position in the ministry.

  Jim Bakker

  Stress, Years, Scary

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• If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

  Alan Hirsch

  Capacity, Ifs

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• Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!

  Mike Ditka

  Jesus, Temptation, Stones

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• I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Helping

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2018). “Words of Counsel: For All Leaders, Teachers, and Evangelists”, p.40, Aneko Press

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• Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion...No man shall be compelled to frequent or support religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Justice Of God

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Forgotten, States

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.108, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Tired, Years

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