Christian Ministry Quotes

The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.

No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry

Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy.

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 always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

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.

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.