Top 100 Quotes About Ministry
#1. Our success in ministry is not to elevate us but to glorify Him who has called and equipped us
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.
Flower A. Newhouse
#3. Administration and order are essential for your ministry. They are a stepping-stone to your being a success.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.
Samuel E. Waldron
#5. Mark's focus is kept squarely on Jesus's ministry; he is uninterested either in Jesus's birth or, perhaps surprisingly, in Jesus's resurrection, as he writes nothing at all about either event.
Reza Aslan
#6. 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
#7. It would be a safe place for the sharing of burdens and capturing memories before they disappeared. It would be called the Ministry of Stories and Truth and it would help her kingdom heal.
Kristin Cashore
#8. In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.
Al Jourgensen
#9. I like the monastic life ... in the prayer and the praising ... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
Pope Theodoros II
#10. I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.
J.K. Rowling
#12. In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
Lloyd Cutler
#13. God clearly called me into the preaching and teaching ministry, principally in hostile arenas. An odd call for a shy individual, I would think! But God does it his way.
Ravi Zacharias
#14. Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.
Al Jourgensen
#15. There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.
Dallas Willard
#16. If you'll simply step out and do what He's called you to do - whether it's to proclaim His Word, or to assist others through the ministry of helps - you'll find yourself walking into the blessings of God and a greater fulfillment in your life than you ever dreamed possible.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#17. When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.
Rick Warren
#18. 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
#19. Of course, prayer ought to permeate all we do in ministry, but it's especially important in fundraising.
Scott Morton
#20. The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
Isaac
#21. Early in the ministry of the apostle Paul, he called himself the least of the apostles. Later on he said he was the least of all Christians. Then he said he was the chief of sinners. The older he got, the more he saw of God, the lower he became in his own estimation.
Tommy Nelson
#22. To himself and gave us m the ministry
Anonymous
#23. If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#24. We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
A.B. Simpson
#25. The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.
Elizabeth George
#26. If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Pray and fast for your ministry, proclaim it and prophesy victory to yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#28. 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
#29. I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
Anne Graham Lotz
#30. The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
David Platt
#31. I am not overstatingthis; the anointing is mandatory if you are called to serve The Lord. Without it there will be no growth, no blessing, no victory in your ministry.
Benny Hinn
#32. 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.
#33. It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner
#34. Discouragement comes when the things you expected to see in your ministry don't happen
Sunday Adelaja
#35. 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
#36. The empire of angels is as vast as God's creation. If you believe the Bible, you will believe in their ministry.
Billy Graham
#37. 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
#38. From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.
David Wilkerson
#39. [A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.
Edmund Burke
#40. To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.
John Tesh
#41. It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.
John Piper
#42. Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry
Sunday Adelaja
#43. If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.
Heidi Baker
#44. I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
T.D. Jakes
#45. I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.
Iyanla Vanzant
#46. [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
#47. 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
#48. While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
James Green Somerville
#49. 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
#50. I believe men need to get together and talk about what it means to be male - to share dreams, business ideas, ministry visions, and struggles, and to pray together and declare war on the weakness among us.
Bruce Lengeman
#51. In order to know your ministry, you need to start serving and be under the leadership of someone, who already knows his ministry
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Whatever "call" a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#53. By the power bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants ...
Graham Chapman
#54. God's Word not only gives authority to one's ministry; it provides a solid foundation for one's life.
Billy Graham
#55. The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.
Timothy Keller
#57. Apostolic ministry and suffering are inseparably entwined, and those who answer the apostolic calling must be prepared to face difficulty with a mastery of it. Without this ingredient in place, the apostle (and the whole apostolic movement) will not endure.
David Cannistraci
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. The mistake that many people make, is that they use God to build up a ministry for themselves; they use the name of Jesus to build a church for themselves
Sunday Adelaja
#61. If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.
Rick Warren
#62. It's strange that Christians so rarely talk about failure when we claim to follow a guy whose three-year ministry was cut short by his crucifixion.
Rachel Held Evans
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
Ada Yonath
#67. The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.
Simon Greenleaf
#68. Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.
Johnny Hunt
#69. Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
Aldrich Ames
#70. I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.
Avigdor Lieberman
#71. 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
#72. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.
Brandon Cox
#73. Ministry is when the people who hear you, don't want more of you; they want more of Him because of what you've said. When you point them to God's fire instead of trying to get attention for yourself-that's ministry.
Priscilla Shirer
#74. The reason that almost half of Mark's sixteen chapters describe the final period of Jesus' ministry is that it is in his suffering, death and resurrection that the revelation of God in Christ is most clearly seen.
William L. Lane
#75. I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
Bob Ainsworth
#76. 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
#77. Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
C.D. Darlington
#78. Ministry is about joining God where God can be found.
Andrew Root
#79. I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my company and sold out in January 2007 to go into the ministry full-time.
Michael Richard Stosic
#80. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4).
Arthur W. Pink
#81. If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!
Sunday Adelaja
#82. Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
Charles Hodge
#83. genuine relationships are always the best place to start as we seek to integrate our ethical views in the daily life of ministry.
Preston Sprinkle
#84. Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.
Rick Warren
#85. To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.
Alister E. McGrath
#86. It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice ... Restorative justice is a fad.
Douglas Carswell
#87. The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants' quarters.
Edmund Clowney
#88. 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
#89. We have created a culture of leadership "development" in the Church at the expense of ignore the ministry of the Church to making disciples.
John Paul Warren
#90. Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church it has not valued much.
Pope Francis
#91. University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought, that tendency of mind which the ministry that appoints to the professorships regards as consistent with its views.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#92. 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
#93. God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.
Rick Warren
#94. I would like to remind the black ministry, and indeed all black people, that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.
Steve Biko
#95. Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
David Wilkerson
#96. Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
C.J. Mahaney
#97. -The provisions you need to fulfill you ministry or mission is locked up in the open doors of utterance, faith and call
-During your waiting time look inward to yourself, upward to God, then outward to ur environ
Ikechukwu Joseph
#98. Without a confession of faith the church's evaluation of its ministers is haphazard and shallow at best; and the church will be in great danger of laying hands on novices and heretics, all because it does not measure candidates for the ministry by a broad and deep standard.
Samuel E. Waldron
#99. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
Philip Yancey
#100. To be profitable to God, your calling and ministry, the doors of utterance,ministry and faith must remain open.
Ikechukwu Joseph
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