The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.
If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?
The minister should not press his personal views unduly about what is not essential.
In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.
My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.
Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.
It's not so easy to apply to today's society things that were written thousands of years ago. But that's exactly the job of a minister - to make the teaching of the Bible relevant.
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
I cannot for the life of me understand what the Minister Of Transport does every day. He goes to the office at 9am and leaves at 5pm and the traffic in London is still horrendous.
