Ministry Quotes

As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Each Day, Way, Helpful

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Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Prayer, Two, Giving

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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

T. D. Jakes

People, Branded, Superiors

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Ministry is simply about loving the person in front of you.

Heidi Baker

Persons, Fronts

Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.35, Charisma Media

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Ministry is pretty simple. Love people and help them.

T.L. Osborn

Simple, People, Helping

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Funny, Women

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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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We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

Timothy Keller

Jesus, Strong, Fellowship

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But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

Pat Robertson

Growing Up, Television, Courses

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My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Al Sharpton

Thinking, Order, Social Activism

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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Shimon Peres

Defense

"Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

Roger Mahony

Healing, Community, Catholic

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Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

Jay Sekulow

School, Church, Return

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It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Hjalmar Schacht

Effort, Energy, Statistics

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It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

Charles Hodge

Christian, People, Church

Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.27

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To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

John Tesh

Christmas, Records

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I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

Willie Aames

Children, Adults, Would Be

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As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

Stacie Orrico

Christian, Spiritual, Song

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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Wilfred Owen

Asks

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I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

Andrew Greeley

Lonely, Regret, Taken

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I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

Jerry Falwell

Religious, Thinking, Groups

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I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.

Benny Hinn

Healing, Aerospace, Miracle

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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

Sally Kirkland

Art, Light, California

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I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

Peter Arnett

Years, People, Information

Iraqi TV Interview, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2003.

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Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Aldrich Ames

Party, Agency, Volunteer

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