Ministers Quotes - Page 23

• I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Excuse, Prime

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• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Australia, Listening

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• Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Wise, Spiritual, Dog

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• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marine, Volcanoes, Opposites

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

  James M. Barrie

  Times Have Changed, Bye, Sitting

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• It's not just our job to minister to other peoples' needs. We also have to minister to their potential.

  Tommy Barnett

  Jobs, Needs

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• Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Wind, Loyal

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• Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Prayer, Groups, Intimacy

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• Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

  William Cowper

  Sports, Country, Mad

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

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• Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Fellow Man

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Sun, Corruption

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.26

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• A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Long, Doe

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• It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Relatives And Friends, Impossible, Christ

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• The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doctrine, World, Christ

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• The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Hardship, Danger

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Winning, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Receiving, Pouring, Discouragement

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.34, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

  Hate, Real, People

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• The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Judging, Saint, Christ

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• I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Thinking, Important

  "Inside Right: A Study of Conservatism". Book by Ian Gilmour, p. 134, 1977.

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• Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Judging, Political

  "Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel". Book by Robert Boothby, pp. 183-84, October, 1978.

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• Do what Jesus says... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Jesus, Leader, Church

  "Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind". Book by John R. Sommerfeldt, 2004.

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• I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Want, Spirit, Hundred

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 320), 1895.

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• The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Passion

  1821 Adonais, stanza 9.

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• The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

  John Bercow

  Jobs, Team, Party

  "'Low-grade, sub-standard, downmarket drivel': House of Commons Speaker in angry rant at critics of him and his wife" by Tom McTague, www.mirror.co.uk. August 14, 2012.

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