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Michael Jordan once said that the most peaceful moments of his life were on a basketball court, because that's the only place he knew exactly what to do. And to me the most peaceful moments in my ministry are in the pulpit because that's when I really know what I'm going to do.

Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.

Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.

Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry

Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.

Starbucks has kept me in the ministry.

Statistics are for losers.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

There are many different ways that people get licensed or ordained through different ministries, denominations, etc. So - but for myself, there was no formal seminary.

The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. It assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. It decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. Market exchange is merely a sham.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.

Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

The war between the Pastor and the Prophet will cease with the full emergence of the Apostle.... Are we going to be willing to submit our ministry to a specific Apostolic visionary? This is a critical question that will determine our influence on hastening the coming of the Lord, in our effective contribution to the restoring of all things spoken by the prophets.

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency.

The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.