C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."
Ministry quotes
Ministry
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J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I’m afraid."
Timothy Keller
Pastor, Author
"We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry"
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers."
Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"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."
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"The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness."
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"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."
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"Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")"
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"We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security."
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"If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?"
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"I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy."
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"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world."
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"Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has."
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"First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio."
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"Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God."
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"I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere."
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"Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
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"We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone."
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"Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians."
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"The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'"
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"Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel."
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"The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions."
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"I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids."
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"Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life."
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"The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact."
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