Ministry Quotes

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

~ Samuel E. Waldron

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ nor of His will for my life.

~ Henrietta C. Mears

Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.

~ Mandy Hale

If you have really given your burden over to God, then soon your ministry will bring you great joy!

~ Sunday Adelaja

I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can't please everybody all the time, no matter how hard you try. But the greatest honor of the office, from my perspective, is being invited into the lives of people at their very best moments and at their very worst moments.

~ Matthew C. Harrison

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

~ Dwight L. Moody

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior

~ Soraya Diase Coffelt

Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.

~ Jody Cantrell Dyer

Outstanding success in life, leadership, business, marriage and ministry always come down to a test of whether or not you will make a sacrifice when no one else is watching. The key to our success is what we will do when no one will applaud us or even notice us.

~ Benjamin Suulola

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

~ Oche Otorkpa

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.

~ E.m. Bounds

In my prayer journey I’ve been motived by many lesser aspirations like guilt, approval before others and even a ego-driven desire for church growth. Of course, a passion for revival can even trigger more prayers. Yet, in the long run, we must remember that there is a difference between seeking revival from God vs. seeking God for revival.

~ Daniel Henderson

Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.

~ Daniel Henderson

Will you not this day make it your prayer? Lord, help me to glorify Thee; I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve Thee; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Thine, and glow with no flame but affection for Thee; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of Thee and for Thee; Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Dear church, John the baptist died for exposing the sins of others. Jesus died to actually pay for the sins of others.John was great, but we should not follow his model. Our model is Christ. So lets stop telling the world how bad their sin is and lets start sharing how good the Father has always been.

~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

~ Heidi Baker

After Jesus' fast, he began healing, rescuing, redeeming. The Spirit filled up the emptiness Jesus created, launching him into ministry. In some supernatural way the abstinence from food was the catalyst for Jesus' unveiling; the real fireworks were next.

~ Jen Hatmaker

Great is our calling, We dare not be idle.The saddle is in place,And Jesus is bridle.

~ Kari L. Greenaway

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.

~ Kris Vallotton

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

~ D.r. Silva

But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression, anger or pain. He loved people back to life. He would go anywhere, talk to anyone. And wherever He went, He would stop for the one-- the forgotten one, the one who was rejected, outcast, sick, even stone dead. Even a thief who was dying for his crimes on the cross next to Him. In the Kingdom of God's love there is no sinner who cannot come home.

~ Heidi Baker

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.

~ Karl Barth

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place whey are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. As busy, active, relevant ministers, we want to earn our bread by making a real contribution. This means first and foremost doing something to show that our presence makes a difference. And so we ignore our greatest gift, which is our ability to enter into solidarity with those who suffer.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

~ Paul C. Nagel

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

~ Chris Matthews

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

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

~ Matt Perman

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.

~ Megan Mckenna

Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

~ Bill Bryson

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

If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart

~ Sunday Adelaja

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!

~ Jarrid Wilson