Top 79 Ministry Work Quotes
#1. There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.
Christopher Ash
#2. I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.
Bill Vaughan
#3. You bring the influence of the Kingdom to the people by giving them things that would interest them
Sunday Adelaja
#5. Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#6. When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.
David Green
#7. We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.
Ravi Zacharias
#8. The Bible equips us for ministry. And ministry is not limited to pastors, priests, nuns, speakers, authors, and Bible teachers. Ministry is doing God's work wherever He has placed us ... in our home, in our school, in our workplace, in our neighborhood, in our community, and in our world.
Wendy Blight
#9. Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.
Peter J. Leithart
#10. 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
#11. Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.
Watchman Nee
#12. God has not called you to get agitated about His work, to get worried and disquieted on His account. He has called you to be a fellow worker, His co-worker
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English ... Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry in public, with facility and acceptance.
Christmas Evans
#14. Mark this down if you can. Silences, not just sentences, form the work of pastoral ministry. Wise pastors are listening preachers.
Zack Eswine
#15. [R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.
Daniel Henderson
#16. Don't wait for people to locate you. Rather, reach out to people and help to bring them to Christ
Sunday Adelaja
#17. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.
A.W. Tozer
#18. Unplanned occurrences are reminders to check your tendency to think that you're the one in control. In reality, it's someone else....
It is a vivid reminder that in ministry, no matter how hard you work, ultimately it's God's work, not yours. All this puts our work in perspective.
James Martin
#19. Locate the problems in people's lives with the intention of finding a solution
Sunday Adelaja
#20. Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.
Matt Perman
#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. Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
A.W. Tozer
#23. Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives
Sunday Adelaja
#24. When awe of God has captured your heart, ministry will fill your schedule. You won't need the church to schedule ministry for you; you will approach work, marriage, parenting, extended family, friendships, and community with a ministry mentality.
Paul David Tripp
#25. Find the interest of people and help them achieve their calling
Sunday Adelaja
#26. You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of the mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten.
Marilynne Robinson
#27. The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.
Sieg Pedde
#29. Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.
David Brooks
#30. All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.
Todd Stocker
#31. I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.
Lester Sumrall
#32. To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them
Sunday Adelaja
#33. Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church, with its members independent and free from debt, with time to labor in the ministry, can then successfully carry on the work of the Lord here on earth.
Henry D. Moyle
#34. Christians are not in ministry to serve but to be served. They get ministered to Sunday after Sunday with no motivation to give back. Some of the people have a tendency to be spectators and not participants in God's work.
Joceline Bronson
#35. You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right
Sunday Adelaja
#36. I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.
John Piper
#37. I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom
#38. One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#39. Throughout the past decade of ministry work, my most meaningful and rewarding project has been Grace for the Homeschool Mom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#40. The earnest worker soon learns his own weakness. If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time. I'm very close with my church, very close with the pastor and his wife, and I work with a girls' ministry here.
Tiffany Dupont
#42. Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.
Marianne Williamson
#43. Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church
Sunday Adelaja
#44. 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
#45. The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority
Sunday Adelaja
#46. You must be able to communicate properly with the people you want to minister to
Sunday Adelaja
#47. Our main mandate in our place of work is to make sure that the people open up their hearts to others
Sunday Adelaja
#49. Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
Charles Hodge
#51. 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
#52. Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them
Sunday Adelaja
#53. We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
#54. Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears
Sunday Adelaja
#55. Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.
Gangai Victor
#56. By keeping the price of treatment drugs artificially high, and making sure that only those who can afford it have the opportunity of a cure, we're actually supporting the work that the Ministry of Epidemics does. I mean, look at Africa and our liaison with the Underworld there.
Liz Williams
#57. Change the value system of the people you are ministering to
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#60. Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.
Henri Nouwen
#61. We were created to use our lives as an instrument and everything we have to extend God's Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#62. Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie Ten Boom
#63. Do not enter the full-time ministry unless the Lord has specifically called you for full time, otherwise your labor will be in vain.
Paul Silway
#64. God does not just save you for your personal interest but for you to become a channel for the salvation of others
Sunday Adelaja
#65. Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.
Miriam Makeba
#66. You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.
Billy Graham
#68. We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.
John Calvin
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are
Sunday Adelaja
#72. A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all
Neil T. Anderson
#73. Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members
Sunday Adelaja
#74. To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.
Anonymous
#75. With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Sally Kirkland
#76. You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.
John Piper
#78. In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.
Dallas Willard
#79. If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!
Elizabeth George
