Best Ministry Wisdom
383 Ministry quotes by 238 unique authors
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Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
— Saul Bellow
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If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
— Alan Hirsch
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It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or…
— Rick Warren
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If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing
— Craig Groeschel
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He turns our weaknesses into His opportunities
— Graham Kendrick
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Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the…
— Terry Pratchett
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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…
— Ronald Reagan
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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…
— Albert Camus
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And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.
— Harvey Dorfman
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Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.
— Thomas Sowell
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The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into…
— D. A. Carson
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We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.
— George W. Bush
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Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
— Mike Ditka
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Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only…
— David Jeremiah
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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…
— Charles Spurgeon
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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…
— Joel Beeke
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A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.
— Rick Warren
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The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God…
— Doug Fields
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Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.
— Doug Fields
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Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach…
— Kevin DeYoung
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Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books
— Richard Baxter
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238 authors contributed a total of 383 Ministry Quotes, led by these top contributors: