Ministry Quotes

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 "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Let's come together as the body of Christ and reach out and be the true hands and feet of Christ.

I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

One of the best magistrates as minister, and a good sharp thief-taker for [foreign] secretary

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

I want to be maybe the modern-day Billy Graham.

I'm continuing to do what I have always done, which is minister to people with the ultimate goal of fulfilling God's plans for my life and ministry.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

My work in television is part of my ministry. My ministry is not religious at all - it's part of my life purpose of empowering women.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

My wife and I - her more than me - are really strong Christians. Her whole life revolves around studying the Bible, Bible study, after-school Bible class she does for little kids on Wednesdays, teaches Sunday school.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.