Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.
In order to do well, missionary work has to be totally positive.
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that's career suicide.
I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.
I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!
Dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward; you know that. That’s why you’re here, to help the nuns do God’s work.
I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.
Even missionaries get discouraged at times.
One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church.
And then my husband works every second weekend, sermons on Sunday, baptising on Saturdays, weddings.
Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.
Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.
My job is to preach and preach and preach.
A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat itinerant, can easily make long and interesting journals.
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
No life is messier than one in ministry
