Ministry Quotes - Page 2

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life.

Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith.

God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.

Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

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

True ministry isn't just 'cut and paste,' it has to be birthed from the inside out.

As we meet and touch, each day, The many travelers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful minister.

When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.