Ministry Quotes
John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.
Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.
The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?
Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.
It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart
Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!
The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.
The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal
Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.
Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.
Cause every task of your day to be a sacred ministry to the Lord. however mundane your duties, for you they are a sacrament.
JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.
You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors.
God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.
An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.
This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.
The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on
Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?” asked Scrimgeour.“No, I’m not, ” retorted Hermione. “I’m hoping to do some good in the world!
Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.
Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?
He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.
Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
Worship is the launching pad for life.
Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell
My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive
Yes, it's important to inspire the next generation but let's not forget to inspire the now generation too.
Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead with excellence.
Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.
I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?
One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.
Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.
The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.
The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display.
A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.