Quotes About Minister

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented being forced to recite the Apostle's Creed, mumbling, 'I believe... ' when I didn't.

Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod – and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a funeral at which it seemed like almost nobody in attendance had any idea why they were there. His wife, who had heard things like this from him before, reminded him of a ceremony he had presided over only a few months ago about which he had had the same reaction. 'Oh right,' the minister said. 'Yes. That one was much worse.' He leaned down to the coffee table and picked up the remote.

Only a dry as dust religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister. - Rev. John Hale

They firmly believe it to be the sole function of art to minister to their personal comfort — as upholstery does.

The witch hunt stands as a cobwebbed, crowd-sourced cautionary tale, a reminder that—as a minister at odds with the crisis noted—extreme right can blunder into extreme wrong.

The Massachusetts elite had read everything in sight, some of it too closely. As would be said of logic-loving Ipswich minister John Wise, those men were not so much the masters as the victims of learning. They had read and reread bushels of witchcraft texts. They parsed legal code. They knew their history. They worked in the sterling name of reason.

social gospel minister Walter Rauschenbusch proclaimed that if God couldn't be a liberal progressive then we needed a new god entirely.

while Mr. Edwards was in the town, and they had no other minister to preach to them, they carried on public worship among themselves, and without any preaching, rather than invite him.

If you should happen to settle a minister who knows nothing truly of Christ and the way of salvation by him, nothing experimentally of the nature of vital religion; alas, how will you be exposed as sheep without a shepherd!

He's a minister. Seems nice.

A president is a minister, chosen to administer integrity and unmask evil schemes in its regime, how blessed is such a nation.

ese señor Godoy es un alma de cántaro, y que no ha estudiado latín ni teología, pues todo su saber se reduce a tocar la guitarra y a conocer los veintidós modos de bailar la gavota. Parece que por su linda cara le han hecho, primer ministro. Así andan las cosas de España; luego, hambre y más hambre… todo tan caro… la fiebre amarilla asolando a Andalucía…

The idea that a dissenting minister has to resign every time his views are defeated is absurd because on that basis half the cabinet would resign every week and if an election were called those same ministers would have to urge voters to vote for the government from which they had just resigned.

When I became minister for employment, that was my ideal job because it meant I was able to reflect on what I saw growing up and actually try to change it.

My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.

I have been requesting the government because it is the government which has to allocate the land to build public courses. I am willing to meet the minister and discuss ways to make courses public and more accessible to the regular sports enthusiasts.

The Minister had a great respect for Pyle - Pyle had taken a good degree in - well, one of those subjects Americans can take degrees in: perhaps public relations or theatrecraft, perhaps even Far Eastern studies (he had read a lot of books).

More likely it was boxed in a closet after his death, an enduring embarrassment like a dead minister's porn stash or an old soldier's necklace of dried ears or collection of Nazi paraphernalia.