Ministry Quotes - Page 9

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Want Something, Want, Want U

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• I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

  Kevin Cramer

  Vocation, Plumber, Public Life

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• We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

  Charles Stanley

  Home, America, Television

  Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. September 14, 2007.

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• The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

  John Hancock

  Names, Rewards, British

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• For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Real, Party, Political

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1910). “Under Five Reigns”, London : Methuen

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• [P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.

  Avis Bohlen

  Eras, Murder, Protection

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• The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Apparitions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, People, Guilt

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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• Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.

  Doug Fields

  Jesus, People, Healthy

  Doug Fields (2009). “Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry: A Personal and Practical Guide to Starting Right”, p.82, Zondervan/Youth Specialties

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• Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Tired, Years

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• The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

  Paul Smith

  Past, Opportunity, Leader

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• I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

  Phil Keaggy

  Integrity, Men, Balance

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• The founder of every ex-gay ministry in America has proved to be an extraordinary failure. The two founders of Exodus International, [the world's largest 'ex-gay' organization], divorced their wives to move in together.

  Wayne Besen

  Moving, Gay, Organization

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• Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion...No man shall be compelled to frequent or support religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Justice Of God

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Forgotten, States

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.108, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.

  F.B. Meyer

  Christian, Encouragement, Comfort

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• To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Cutting, Hands, Naked

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.236

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• When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of
  unconverted church members.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Past, Men

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• We must learn to share the gospel in ways that show it is both GOOD and NEWS. The gospel is about what God has done for us and what we can become in Christ

  Rick Warren

  News, Done, Way

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• In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

  Eddie Gibbs

  Years, Church, Doe

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• The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Giving, Verbs

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead

  Jakob Nielsen

  Advantage, Temporary

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• Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

  Edward John Carnell

  Substitutes, Relevance, Entry

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• ... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

  John Stott

  Believe, Biblical, Bridges

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