Christian Ministry Quotes

• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Littles

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  Harold J. Warner

  Heart, Character, Ministry

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• If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

  David Livingstone

  Wisdom, Kings, Inspiration

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• One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

  Harold J. Warner

  Relationship, Jobs, Hardest Job

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• I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Might, Helping

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• God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

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• God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

  Hudson Taylor

  Inspiring, Christian, Missionary

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  Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

  William Carey

  Christian, Spiritual, Religion

  "The Missionary Herald". The Baptist Magazine, Volume 35, January 1843.

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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 goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

  John C. Maxwell

  Christian, Growing Up, Past

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• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

  Vance Havner

  Time, Jesus, Men

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  We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

  John Stott

  Christian, Vision, Missionary

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

  Hudson Taylor

  Prayer, Godly, Firsts

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• Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

  Joel Beeke

  Christian, Frustration, Preaching The Gospel

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• It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Spiritual, Giving

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• The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  God, Christian, Religious

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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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• Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

  John Henry Jowett

  Christian, Accomplish Nothing, Ministry

  "The Preacher, His Life and Work".

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Praying

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

  William Griffith Thomas

  Christian, Spiritual, People

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• I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Men, Best Christian

  "The Watchtower" magazine, 1992.

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• The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Perfect, Lazy

  Source: www.challies.com

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• He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rise To Power, Individual Happiness, Church Ministry

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