Ministry Quotes

“An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.”

“If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.”

“The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.”

“If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.”

“Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!”

“Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.”

“Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.”

“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”

“I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.”

“I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!”