Top 100 Ministry Of Quotes
#1. Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.
J.K. Rowling
#2. [Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer ... No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.
Billy Graham
#3. God did not love you because of your background, your intelligence, your good looks, your prayers, your ministry, your commitment, your faith, or your good life. God loves you ... because He loves you. Let that lead you to worship.
Colin S. Smith
#4. The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.
Michael Kirby
#5. The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
John Chrysostom
#6. Your biggest problem in ministry and in life isn't that you'll make a mistake, but that you'll be consumed by the fear of making a mistake.
Karl Vaters
#7. The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#8. The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
John Ortberg
#9. The Church is Christ's witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
John Paul Warren
#10. Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.
Alistair Begg
#11. A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#12. Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#13. The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
Gough Whitlam
#14. Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#15. Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.
Earl Paulk
#16. An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
David Wilkerson
#18. No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry
Joel Beeke
#19. Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.
Matt Perman
#20. We accept what Scripture teaches as far as our doctrine is concerned; but when it comes to practice, we very often fail to take the Scriptures as our only guide ... Dare I give an obvious illustration? The question of women preaching, and being ordained to the full ministry.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#21. This is the ministry and its work
not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
Frederick William Robertson
#22. That's the bittersweet joy of ministry. We see people healed, and then we watch them move on in victory. Sometimes, it means saying goodbye. We must learn to celebrate as our fledgling birds spread their wings and fly into freedom, even if that flight pattern takes them far away from us.
Katherine J. Walden
#23. Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.
Heidi Baker
#24. Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives
Sunday Adelaja
#25. What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people? Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.
Nancy Pearcey
#26. Herzl had said that attracting the Jewish diaspora would be a slow process, but after a half century as a nation, according to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, only 17 percent of American Jews have ever visited Israel.
Mark Kurlansky
#27. If the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness overflows with even more glory. 2 Corinthians 3:9
Beth Moore
#28. If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Nick pulled a business card out of a pocket and handed it to Elphaba. It read Nicholas Lynch, Inspector, Ministry of Magick, next to a moving image of Nick, mugging for the camera. I finally get to use my Harry Potter business cards!
Abramelin Keldor
#30. My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.
Kevin DeYoung
#31. 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
#32. Thus the Old Testament prophets, Jesus himself, and his apostles all attribute the divine power in his (Jesus) ministry not to the uniqueness of his deity, but rather to the ministry of the Holy Spirit through him.
Jack Deere
#34. However, there is also a ministry called the prayer closet. Humble servants, burdened with the cares of others, intercede on their behalf. This service offered up by uncelebrated prayer warriors is a mighty weapon. They call upon the power of God to thwart the schemes of the evil one.
Cheryl Zelenka
#35. The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.
Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.
Charles R. Swindoll
#36. I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.
John Ortberg
#37. You can choose to become an engineer, a teacher, a journalist or to pursue any other kind of profession. But when God calls you, you do not know what He has called you to do or what ministry he has in mind for you
Sunday Adelaja
#38. I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
David Wilkerson
#39. I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.
Mike Jackson
#40. 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
#41. I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?
James Carl Nelson
#42. Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.
Lawrence Kushner
#43. Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.
Kevin DeYoung
#44. I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
Shimon Peres
#45. Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon.
Carl Tuttle
#46. I believe every minister of the gospel is called to this ministry first of all. The ministry of light, the ministry of destruction of darkness, the ministry of setting people free from ignorance.
Sunday Adelaja
#47. When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.
Gary Rohrmayer
#48. Evangelism is more than simply encouraging decisions for Christ. It is urging people to become disciples - followers - of Jesus Christ. As such, the evangelist has a responsibility to make growth in discipleship possible for those who come to faith under his ministry.
Billy Graham
#50. The church growth movement has made many lasting contributions to our practice of ministry. But its overemphasis on technique and results can put too much pressure on ministers because it underemphasizes the importance of godly character and the sovereignty of God.
Timothy Keller
#51. It is by suffering that Christ brings it in to the kingdoms of this world
L. Michael Morales
#52. Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church
Sunday Adelaja
#53. The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority
Sunday Adelaja
#54. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4).
Arthur W. Pink
#55. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.
John Paul Warren
#56. The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.
Paul Washer
#57. God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.
John Piper
#58. The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#59. A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?
Ron Suskind
#60. We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" [Revelation 3:8 KJV].
Billy Graham
#61. Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan
#62. Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
C.D. Darlington
#63. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joel R. Beeke
#64. There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer ... the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
A.B. Simpson
#65. 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
#66. Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications
Namsoon Kang
#67. We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.
Kevin DeYoung
#68. To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.
Bill Mills
#70. I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.
Marvin Sapp
#71. The empire of angels is as vast as God's creation. If you believe the Bible, you will believe in their ministry.
Billy Graham
#72. The students in your youth ministry don't need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model - a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.
Doug Fields
#73. We must realize that the ministries and gifts of the Spirit are for everyday life, not just meetings.
Rick Joyner
#74. There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health
Dalton McGuinty
#75. The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner
#76. 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
#77. Pride is the archenemy of ministry.
Beth Moore
#78. I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes
#79. Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.
Arthur Wallis
#80. In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."
Todd Bentley
#81. Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It's built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don't even see. It's a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
Bono
#82. I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.
Paul O'Grady
#83. Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.
Billy Graham
#84. My turn . . ." Ron peered into Harry's teacup, his forehead wrinkled with effort. "There's a blob a bit like a bowler hat," he said. "Maybe you're going to work for the Ministry of Magic. . . ." He
J.K. Rowling
#86. God is not interested in how big our ministry has become. He is much more intimately interested in how we tended to the garden of our own hearts. And that is what He will hold us in high account for.
Anna Blanc
#87. Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms
one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.
George Orwell
#88. Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban ...
J.K. Rowling
#89. If only we actually were in Harry Potter. I'd totally Crucio her ass. Yeah, that's right, I'd use one of the Unforgivable Curses. Come at me, Ministry of Magic.
R.S. Grey
#90. Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.
Andy Stanley
#91. Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.
Benny Hinn
#93. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
D.R. Silva
#94. You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#95. In order to be successful in a ministry, you need wisdom, the wisdom of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#96. Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.
Joel Beeke
#97. I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
Mick Jagger
#98. 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
#99. I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#100. We in the ministry of IT and Communications often get flak for deciding what to ban. We actually never decide something should be banned. We always follow orders from different ministries.
Killi Krupa Rani
