Quotes About Ministry

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.

The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."

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

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

... there is one primary purpose of a Christian's business: to serve God.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.

May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

I still sing. I still lead worship. I mean, it's - who I am, it's what God has given me to do.