Ministry Quotes - Page 5

• If God is going to use us for His honor and glory, if His power is going to rest upon us, if He is going to bless our soul-winning ministry, then our lives must be places absolutely at His disposal.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Winning, Soul, Honor

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• The only thing more important than ministry is being ministered to.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Important

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• Here's an encouraging word for someone tonight - don't think you're not doing what God called you to do just because things don't seem as glamorous as you thought they would be. If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry. Keep being obedient, keep looking for the next open door of opportunity, and above all else hold closely to our Lord.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 27, 2015

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• You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Focus, Depth, Influence

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• Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Solitude, Essentials

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

  Jim George

  Home, Impact, Generations

  Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.111, Harvest House Publishers

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• Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Purpose Driven Life

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.251, Zondervan

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• It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.

  Mark Hart

  Comfort, Spouse, Unspoken

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.11, Franciscan Media

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• The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

  Richard Cecil

  Mean, Looks, World

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• The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

  John Piper

  Brother, Joy, Threat

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• He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Religion

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 60: Sermons 3387-3439”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

  John Ortberg

  People, Speak, Difficult

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• The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Weight, Might

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• Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opportunity, Thinking

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

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• Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Office, Needs, Christ

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• The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.

  W. A. Criswell

  Prayer, Keys, Priorities

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• The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, Christian, Character

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• We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

  Vance Havner

  Mind, Salt, Earth

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• I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts of the people and he will be happy. There will be no homesickness, no worrying about families, for all time and talents and interests are centered on the work of the ministry. Work, work, work-there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, People, Worry

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• ...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Sometimes, Petitions

  John Henry Jowett (1922). “God - Our Contemporary”

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• Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

  Arthur Wallis

  Israel, Ahab, Pathways

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• Statistics are for losers.

  Scotty Bowman

  Work, Statistics, Loser

  Sports Illustrated A Lot More Where They Come From April 2, 1973

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• We must realize that the ministries and gifts of the Spirit are for everyday life, not just meetings.

  Rick Joyner

  Gifts Of The Spirit, Everyday, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Feb 20, 2015

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• Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.

  Heidi Baker

  Compassion, Where You Are

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.146, Charisma Media

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• The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.

  Allan Boesak

  Jesus, Justice, May

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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