Quotes About Ministry

As for gays, the church needs to be more loving, unconditionally, and willing to see these people as human beings, to minister to them and try to understand.

I have already applied to the Home Ministry for security. So far, I have got nothing. For security, I am staying underground.

I am growing and understanding more of who God is in my life and how I am to minister.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

I think there is a diplomatic stance that would fit me and I will stick to my own style, while also seeking assistance from the Foreign Ministry.

God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name

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.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.

When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.

We are kings who represent the King of kings to the people of the earth. That is our ministry of reconciliation. But we also are "priests to our God," representing the peoples of the earth to our High Priest. In other words, we "stand in the gap before [God] on behalf of the land" (Ezek. 22:30). We are the "go-betweens." In a word, we intercede.

the greatest ministry opportunities I've ever seen have followed the two big tragedies in my life.

from the late Joe Aldrich: "Only wounded soldiers can serve in God's army.