Quotes about Ministry

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

Christians are people who are reconciled to God through Christ. As a consequence, we have been given "the ministry of reconciliation" (2 Cor. 5:18—21). So, a committed member strives to repair breaches as quickly as possible, even before continuing in public worship (Matt. 5:23—24).