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• Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Eye, Fire

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• I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. ... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart are not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Business

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• The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

  Matt Chandler

  Book, Years, Profound

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• I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.

  Philip Yancey

  Hero, Son, Rights

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad.

  Douglas Carswell

  Thinking, Justice, Fads

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• I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, People, Listening

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• You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things and beyond that is your work in life which isn't the same as your ministry and then beyond that is your life. And this is what God is more interested in than your work or your ministry-what He gets out of your life is the person you become. And He has plans for you, and these are long-range plans.

  Dallas Willard

  Jobs, Two, Long

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• That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Aunt, Circles, Godmother

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of Intelligence and their people. This is why we witness a number of journalists and human rights activists, my colleagues, and a number of feminists, in prison.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Iran, Numbers

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Biblical, Wind

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• When trust permeates a ministry, great things are possible, not the least of which is an opportunity to reach the ministry's potential.

  Max De Pree

  Opportunity, Great Things

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• Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Think Of You

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• Never allow the cross to lose it’s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.

  Brandon Cox

  Jesus, Believe, Church

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• In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Community, Movement

  Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

  J. I. Packer

  Character, Giving, Spirit

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• This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Clouds, Yield

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.110, Barbour Publishing

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• On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, August, Two

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• After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Exercise, Age, Adequate

  Pope Benedict XVI’s Resignation Speech, w2.vatican.va. February 10, 2013.

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• I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and not to take everything too tragically. I'd also say it's necessary for my ministry. A writer once said that angels can fly because they don't take themselves too seriously. Maybe we could also fly a bit if we didn't think we were so important.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Angel, Men, Thinking

  "Pope Benedict XVI: 'We Have a Positive Idea to Offer'". German television interview, www.dw.com. August 13, 2006.

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• When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Men, Doctrine

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• What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Beautiful, Jesus, Moving

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.246, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts.
  The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war.
  The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order.
  And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs.
  their names, in Newspeak:
  Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty

  George Orwell

  Art, War, Memorable

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

  Heidi Baker

  Christian, Religious, Passion

  Heidi Baker (2016). “Daily Insights to Birthing the Miraculous: 100 Devotions for Reflections and Prayer”, p.354, Charisma Media

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• Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

  Gene Edwards

  Jesus, Church, Messages

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• I believe that family is closer to God's heart than anything else, the support system he has given us to build us up in faith, and to support us when we falter. If we want our family lives to conform to God's will, Jesus must be our priority, our focal point, in our home as well as in our ministries.
  That doesn't mean that it's always easy to live together: home can be the hardest place to live a Christian life. That's were people see us when we're tired and our defences are down.

  Angus Buchan

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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