Ministry Quotes

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

~ Joseph Campbell

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

~ Joseph Campbell

In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!

~ Lynne Olson

A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.

~ Sandra M. Michelle

A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The more God-centered our worship practices, the more mercy-centered our life.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

When religion becomes so involved in a future good over yonder that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

~ Richard J. Foster

The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.

~ Megan Mckenna

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

~ Watchman Nee

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

~ Watchman Nee

There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. It can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, and this mistrusts in turn brings forth war.

~ Megan Mckenna

[2 Corinthians 1:21-22] says that God has anointed us, has sealed us, and has given us the pledge, the foretaste, of the Spirit. If we are going to minister something of Christ to others, we have to experience Christ by the working of the cross, and the working of the cross is for the anointing, the sealing, and the pledge of the Spirit.

~ Witness Lee

All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test—if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

~ Elizabeth George

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

~ Sue Mallory

God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that’s why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Cast all the problems and troubles that people come to you with onto Him, and you can relax and stay healthy

~ Sunday Adelaja

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

~ H.w. Brands

You are all seen by a God who is proud of those day to day things you do. Ministry doesn't always mean speaking at a pulpit often it comes dressed as everyday work. Don't ever doubt that what you do matters, don't believe that a inspirational speaker or pastor is more worthy then you, for ministry is a state of mind not a career path. God can and will use you in mighty ways through your day to day normal routine.

~ Rachel Hamilton

One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.

~ Ransom Riggs

The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

~ Paul C. Nagel

paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.

~ Charles Murray

[O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).

~ Richard Baxter

As salvation is personal, so also is the territory every individual has to possess.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The key to being a successful pastor is to be able to minister supernaturally, be a pastor without tears, in learning of Him, learning from His life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing that your ministry is how much of a tip you leave when you eat in a restaurant; when you leave a hotel room whether you leave it all messed up or not; whether you flush your own toilet or not. Your ministry is the way that you love people. And you love people when you write something that is encouraging to them, something challenging. You love people when you call your wife and say, 'I'm going to be late for dinner,' instead of letting her burn the meal. You love people when maybe you cook a meal for your wife sometime, because you know she's really tired. Loving people - being respectful toward them - is much more important than writing or doing music.

~ Rich Mullins

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

~ Richard Baxter

Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift.

~ Thomas C. Oden

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.

~ E.b. White

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

~ George Eliot

Believers who come to know the Scripture in a living way, in both knowledge and Spirit, can in turn, use this Word to minister to people around them.

~ Henry Hon

Unless you are led and directed by the Holy Spirit, you will never be truely successful in your ministry.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We as pastors, as God’s ministers, must have right priorities. Only then we will become successful in ministry.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart.

~ Susannah Spurgeon

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

~ John Tesh