#ministry

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#life #loneliness #ministry #change

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#ministry #life

She wisely reasoned that my chosen husband was no ordinary man, that his whole life was absolutely dedicated to God and His service, ad that I must never, never hinder him by trying to put myself first in his heart. ↗

— Susannah Spurgeon

#wife #life

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians. ↗

— Billy Graham

#bridges #build #christians #i #jews

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification. ↗

— William Ames

#church #continual #direction #god #means

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. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#anything #course #did #growing #growing up

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#blessing #down #favor #go #his

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

#end #foreign #had #in the end #ministry

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#commanders #constitution #earnestly #fidelity #hungarian

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#already #application #efforts #energy #essentially