Quotes about Minister
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
— JC Ryle
As the minister speaks to the ear, Christ speaks, opens, and unlocks the heart at the same time; and gives it power to open, not from itself, but from Christ.
— Mark Dever
For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.
— Deuteronomy 18:5
Ascribe both to God alone, and look upon the person administering it as simply the vicarious instrument of God, by which the Lord sitting in heaven thrusts you under the water with his own hands, and promises you forgiveness of your sins, speaking to you upon earth with a human voice by the mouth of his minister.
— Martin Luther
Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim. He was brought into a vivid, personal, overpowering relationship with Jesus Christ. Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling "to make you a minister and a witness." There would be nothing there without a personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ's.
— Oswald Chambers
Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.
— St. Isidore of Seville
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
— Isaiah 56:6
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.
— William Carey
The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.
— Billy Graham
All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
— Dolly Parton
Moses could not sing this way. He is a minister of prison, a teacher of drudgery, an originator of servitude, or, as Paul usually calls him, "A minister of death, sin, and sadness" (2 Cor. 3:9). In antithesis to him we wish to sing of a kingdom that is delightful, free, and full of joy.
— Martin Luther
And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”
— Ezekiel 46:24