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• The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Christian, Character, Years

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• It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Years

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• Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Kindness, Heart

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• The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

  John G. Lake

  Spirit, Speak, Christianity

  John G Lake (2013). “Adventures In God”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No one is going to be powerful in their ministry if they are hiding something that they are afraid people will find out at any moment.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Powerful, Hiding Something

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• He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

  Hooman Majd

  Taken, Escaping, Paris

  Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Meaningful, Light, Long

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• The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Eye, Police, Culture

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• It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Church

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Easy, He Man

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

  Garry Robbins

  Wall, Silence, Crime

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• No life is messier than one in ministry

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Life Is

  Jerry B. Jenkins (2013). “I, Saul”, p.19, Worthy Publishing

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• Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word.

  Martin Luther

  Proud, Christ, Praise

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Culture

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• Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks.  It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry.  Silence is solitude practiced in action.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Cells, Discipline

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.23, HarperCollins

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• No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Hands, Church

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table Talk”

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• God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want Something, Want, Want U

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• If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Desire, World, Wonder

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• My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God’s vision for your ministry.”

  Phil Pringle

  Life Changing, Vision, Important

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.

  Walter Bagehot

  Daughter, Wife, Political

  "The English Constitution". Book by Walter Bagehot, Seventh edition. Chapter 5: "The House of Commons", p. 137, en.wikisource.org. 1894.

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• Because of Jesus Christ the world has changed, the divine Atonement has been made, the price of sin has been paid, and the fearful spectacle of death yields to the light of truth and the assurance of resurrection. Though the years roll by, His birth, His ministry, His legacy continue to guide the destiny of all who follow Him as He so invitingly urged.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Destiny, Yield

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• "Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us on the one truly essential issue, a premiss and condition for feeding his sheep, his lambs, his Church. May every ministry be based on this intimacy with the Lord; living from him is the measure of our ecclesial service which is expressed in the readiness to obey, to humble ourselves, as we heard in the Letter to the Philippians, and for the total gift of self.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Humble, Sheep

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• We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

  Horace Bushnell

  Fashion, Jesus, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388, 1895.

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• The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of that life. The bread and wine are means or instruments by which God quickens us to apprehend, understand, visualize, and experience the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit and his unique ministry of shining the light of illumination and glory on Jesus.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Wine, Mean

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• Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Favors, Praise, Lord

  "Stephen Baldwin: The Jesus Freak of Hollywood". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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