Quote by Martin Luther

“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion…

— John Piper

“God reminds us that doing ministry without taking time to feed off His Holy Word will leave us frustrated and unfulfilled in ministry.”

— Dave Earley

“If thou be powerful, make thyself to be honoured for knowledge and for gentleness. Speak with authority, that is, not as if following injunctions,…

— Ptahhotep

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

— John Piper

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed…

— Joseph Alleine

“Many who have undertaken the work of the ministry, do so obstinately proceed in self-seeking, negligence, pride, and other sins, that it is become…

— Richard Baxter

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by…

— William Laud

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“...ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

— Thomas Hobbes

In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Don't build your ministry on what you're against. Build your ministry on what you're for.

— Craig Groeschel