373 Quotes About Ministry

The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather than what it produced. This meant that, while parishioners could suffer through a terrible year, clergy would always have a comfortable one.

... honor must precede honorariums.

I knew I wanted to study the church, but I had no inkling what it might mean to lead one. I could barely put together the words to name a call to ministry. The best I could articulate was a rather vague 'call to divinity school.' Still, that acceptance letter gave me a new talking point at my parents' cocktail parties.

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It's a failure of love.

Everyone that wants to fulfil God’s commission and His ministry in their lives has to know how to wait patiently, how to wait for God. Only when He then appears can success be guaranteed.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

The promise of a social gospel was for Luther an irrelevant and ultimately irrelevant and ultimately cruel delusion.