Quotes About Ministry

She wanted to take his hand. Her hardest task now as she grew older in the Ministry was to deal with her longing to be touched - hugged, stroked by anyone, any human being - a friend, a lover, a child or even (and here she scented danger) a servant. Of either sex. She prayed about it, asking that God's encircling arms would bring comfort. They did not

Ministry with volunteer youth workers is not primarily about volunteers bringing refreshment to students, nor about youth pastors bringing refreshment to volunteers. It is about creating a space wherein people can find refreshment from Christ. It's about creating an upper room—holy ground where disciples can encounter Christ and be washed and refreshed by him.

Youth ministry is not merely a nuts and bolts operation. The difference between efficiency and Ephesiancy is God's gracious work in our lives.

Our opportunities with students are too few, and the time we can devote to ministry is too precious, to waste them with muddled plans, poor communication, and unproductive activity.

It will be a broad work, with strategies coming from many different sources. I will give one part of a plan to one person, another to others. This will take place simultaneously, and often one ministry or person will not even realize they are a part of a larger scheme. But I will be cutting off Satan's strength from every direction, as through the watchman anointing My people discern from Me.

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.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

V'ha detto che i doveri annessi al ministero fossero liberi da ogni ostacolo, immuni da ogni pericolo? O v'ha detto forse che dove cominciasse il pericolo, ivi cesserebbe il dovere? O non v'ha espressamente detto il contrario?

In my kingdom, on the other hand, a man becomes a great one, and a ruler, by being first the servant of those over whom he is to bear rule. In other states, they rule whose privilege it is to be ministered unto; in the divine commonwealth, they rule who account it a privilege to minister.

He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.

You don't have to be a preacher or have years of training to use your home to love and serve people.

John Oman warns, "unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God's message, it is certain to be the place where you are vainest in giving your own.

If I am successful in my chosen calling in life, I am thriving. But that's not entirely true. There are many seemingly successful people in and out of ministry who are nevertheless miserable.

At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.

The Lord called me to plant a church.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

If I'm on stage and ministering my heart and pointing people to Christ, then that's all I can do.

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.

The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.

you changed when the cost associated with not changing outweighed the price you had to pay to change. When it comes to our ministries, we tend to be slow to change because we underestimate what it will cost if we don't change. It is possible for us to embrace a style of ministry that becomes outdated simply because it is easier to maintain instead of change.

I am a disciple of Jesus. I am serving him by serving you, because that's what he came to do.

I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.

Los profesores, al igual que los padres, por un lado, se ven obligados a defender su autoridad y, por el otro, se ven inducidos a pactar, en una exasperante y confusa negociación, con los alumnos y sus familias y con la burocracia escolar y ministerial

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