Ministry Quotes

The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

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

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

~ H.w. Brands

Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

~ Matt Perman

A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole spirit of his life him impels him to do even that which he needs not do, but which is profitable and necessary for his neighbor.

~ Martin Luther

Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.

~ Richard J. Foster

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

~ Timothy J. Keller

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

~ E.m. Bounds

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

~ David Pietrusza

The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the most and were considered expendable, as the birds of the air, and yet in Jesus' eyes were where one found the treasure of heaven, here, now, on earth.

~ Megan Mckenna

I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ’s church and take the Gospel everywhere.

~ Billy Graham

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

~ Beth Moore

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

~ Witness Lee

The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on

~ Sunday Adelaja

The purpose of salt is to change the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Attracting attention to yourself in the Kingdom of God is like seducing the bride because you are the best man of the groom.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.

~ Richard Sibbes

One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.

~ Thomas C. Oden

The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

~ Thomas C. Oden

Protestants at one time were confident that their free form of confession was a vast improvement upon Catholic private confession to a priest because it is voluntary, demystified, and not routinized. But amid the acids of modernity it has volunteered itself right out of existence. Demystification has dwindled into desacralization. The escape from routinization has become a convenient cover for the demise of repentance. The postmodern pastor is trying to learn anew to listen to the deeper range of feelings of others, without forgetfulness of the Word of God.

~ Thomas C. Oden

The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.

~ Thomas C. Oden

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

~ Jim George

The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

~ E.m. Forster

It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

~ Beth Moore

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

~ Charles Dickens

Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worship is the launching pad for life.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

~ D.r. Silva

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

~ George F. Will

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

~ Stephen L. Carter