Quotes about Service

At the end of today's service, you'll have a chance to vote on whether I should remain as your pastor. Many of you are upset with me because I've chosen to defend a man of another faith who I believe is innocent. Many of you have already decided that he is guilty. But even if you want to assume that this man is guilty, does that mean I shouldn't represent him? Did Christ make you prove your innocence before he died for your sins?

But in God's shadow I had been dazzled by the detour, amazed at the fraternity, and flabbergasted by the depth that comes from simplicity, from serving in a village that was shabby, green, and pulsing with life.

Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.

I don't take any money from my ministry. I'm not on salary. My husband supports me.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

The very names Kierkegaard, Luther, Calvin, Paul and Jeremiah suggest what Schleiermacher never possessed, a clear and direct apprehension of the truth that man is made to serve God and not God to serve man.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.