Quotes About Ministry

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

I try to walk in the lane God wants for me, working on immigration, prison reform, strengthening the family through my ministry.

I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.

As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.

Before I walk onto the stage, it's about the centrality of Jesus and just really keeping a focus on Jesus as opposed to ourselves.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

In defence, 'Make in India' is happening in a big way, and it is not happening without orders coming from the ministry.

Organizations are accumulations of historical debris. They are not consciously thought. So when you ask the Education Ministry 'What's your core function and who's your client?' they laugh at you. When I say that the client is the Afghan child - and the Ministry is an instrument, not the goal - it's greeted with shock. It's a new idea.

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

As the family is restored, the ministry of the household becomes stronger and stronger. Strong families mean effective evangelism. A powerful context for evangelism that is readily accessible to every family is the ministry of hospitality. Hospitality provides an opportunity to show that faith produces more than just talk. It produces works- expressions of love from the very place where love is learned- the Christian home.

Purpose transcends personality. It is important for supportive ministers to serve based on their awareness of God's purpose. His purpose is foundational and will remain steady when personality conflicts and other difficulties arise.... Challenges come to all types of relationships. Only the relationships that are built on a strong foundation will survive and thrive.

Jesus, uniquely at one with God, taught that the ultimate rule is love and that any other religious rule that did not extend God's reign of love needed to be reconsidered. Jesus hinted that this rule of love was even to be extended to non-Jews, and this became a major theme of Paul's ministry and writing a couple of decades later.

Your ability to reach students today is an indicator of your ability to reach your community a few years from now. Measure the percent of students in attendance as if your future depends on it. (Because it does!) And when your student ministry staff discovers a method that works, make sure your adult ministry staff knows about it so they can prepare for a coming shift in their ministries.

The Capacity of Your Team Will Determine the Potential Impact of Your Ministry

In healthy multisite structures, the campus pastor has authority and the ministry leader/champion has influence.

it's possible to do the work of God without doing the work God has called you to do.