Quotes about Ministry

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.

kingdom mission is church mission, church mission is kingdom mission, and there is no kingdom mission that is not church mission.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

I was a full-time pastor and a part-time follower of Christ.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

Above all, I see the preaching ministry as a dual process. On the one hand I must attempt to change the soul of individuals so that their societies may be changed. On the other I must attempt to change the societies so that the individual soul will have a change. Therefore, I must be concerned about unemployment, slums, and economic insecurity. I am a profound advocate of the social gospel.

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

The hope he had of seeing the blessed fruit of his labors and sufferings in the ministry, in their happiness and glory, in that great day of accounts. 4. That, in his ministry among the Corinthians, he had approved himself to his Judge, who would approve and reward his faithfulness in that day. These