Quotes About Ministry

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

You can't be a spiritual adviser and not pray.

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.

Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are called to serve.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

When we say, 'We're here for you,' we mean it to this point - everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.

I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

Let me just tell you this, my aim in life is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, that's all I care about.

I've done admin work, preaching and teaching, youth ministry, marital counseling, etc.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.

Deze hele strijd ging om mensen en toch werden mensen vaak als het minst belangrijk beschouwd. Wij strijden vaak meer voor waarheden, dan voor mensen voor wie de waarheden gegeven zijn. Wij strijden voor bedieningen over de hoofden van de mensen heen, voor wie deze bedieningen zijn

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

I never have been involved in politics.

Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

And then we find ourselves facing a prospect Brown did not consider. If the youth of Jesus was filled in fictively only once the sonship was pushed back to physical conception and birth, mustn't the stories of the ministry have been similarly fabricated only once the sonship had been pushed back from the resurrection to the baptism? This was exactly the suggestion of Paul Couchoud, to which we shall return.

Mr. Leonard thought rightly that the highest work to which any man could be called was a life of service to his fellows; but he made the mistake of supposing the field of service much narrower than it is—of failing to see that a man may minister to the needs of humanity in many different but equally effective ways.

whatever `call' a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.10