Quotes about Ministry

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

I think there is a tremendous need for evangelization.

As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

I came to know God when I was 12, started working in the ministry when I was 13, working in the slum area, living among the poor, loving it, and having this belief that to love the poor I needed to be poor.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

No life is messier than one in ministry

All round about us, in our parishes, in our daily contacts with men, are countless masses of souls that are like gold ingots covered with dross. And we, if we but had the fire of the Spirit, would burnish them into jewels of the Kingdom of God!

The depth of a priest's compassion is the measure of his apostolic success.

But the Sacred Heart wishes great graces to be distributed to souls through the hands of His priests.