Ministers Quotes - Page 38

• I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it.

  Robert Walpole

  Lying, Long, Safety

  1739 Speech, House of Commons, 21 Nov.

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• Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Real, Teaching, Patriotic

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• Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

  Coffee, Catholic, Priests

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• I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

  Sean Hannity

  Christian, Thinking, People

  "Medium John Edward Explains Ability". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Order, Evil

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• Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.

  Catherine Booth

  People, Principles, Hearing

  Catherine Booth (1990). “For God Alone”, Ambassador Productions Limited

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• You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

  John Irving

  Church, Habit, Believer

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• When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Children, Lying, President

  "Mahathir Criticises Bush, Blair". www.thestar.com.my. February 05, 2007.

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• A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.

  Henry Adams

  Government, People, Political

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy”, p.18, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

  Thomas Huxley

  Reality, Sea, Weakness

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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• Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Believe, Passion, Writing

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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• I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Party, Men, Views

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• Men are apt to mistake, or at least to seem to mistake, their own talents, in hopes, perhaps, of misleading others to allow them that which they are conscious they do not possess. Thus lord Hardwicke valued himself more upon being a great minister of state, which he certainly was not, than upon being a great magistrate, which he certainly was.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mistake, Pride, Men

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• There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectlymaster of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, Political, Jargon

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• They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, War

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• All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Selfish, Mean, Men

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.11

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• Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Should Have, Elephants

  "Dalai Lama Laughs Off China's Criticism". News conference in Vancouver, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 08, 2006.

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• Alas, how can the poor souls live in Concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected...

  Henry VIII of England

  Light, Giving, Soul

  "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII" by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry, Great Britain. Public Record Office, (vol. XX, part 2, p. 513), 1862.

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• A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

  Charles E. Bohlen

  Trying, Would Be, Half

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• It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

  Michael Heseltine

  Reading, Remember, Prime

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• Our world can be moved Godward only by leaders who have shared to a deep degree the heartbreak as He looks in compassion and love on the world. Until you sense the suffering tears in the heart of God, until you share to some extent our Saviors suffering passion in Gethsemane, until you come close enough to God to enable the Spirit to yearn within you with His infinite and unutterable yearnings, you are not prepared to minister about the cross.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Passion, Heart, Our World

  Wesley L. Duewel (1989). “Ablaze for God”, p.238, Zondervan

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• Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

  James A. Haught

  Book, Men, Animal

  James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”

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• I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Justice, May, Want

  Interview, Ottawa, 22 Dec. 1967

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