#minister

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#among #amounted #call #father #had

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. ↗

— Sophocles

#among #base #command #does #fear

I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#always #back #diplomat #get #i

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#church #end #i #ministers #ordered

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#afford #amazing #bureaucracy #cannot #doctors

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#affairs #among #conduct #does #free

The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#bringing #fall #incarnation #life #man

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#allowed #between #capital #commerce #countries

As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#absolution #administer #any #baptism #case