“You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.”— William Booth
“A minister of the Universalist church, I am here to represent the cause of women, a cause which is the same everywhere.”— Olympia Brown
“I'm in the business of offering sacraments to people who want them, and the institutional church is in the business of denying them.”— Pat Buckley
“If I have any choice of action, I will not be a popular preacher. A popular preacher is on the very verge of turning the key upon his own usefulness.”— Richard Cecil
“Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them.”— George Fox
“God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and this ministry that belongs to you, God.”— Paul Crouch
“The work of a minister is the holiest and grandest work in which a man can be engaged.”— Matthew Simpson
“Some people want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop, within a yard of hell.”— Larry Norman
“The task of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.”— Jonathan Edwards
“Popularity is the applause of the crowd... the important thing is not the counting of heads, but the converting of hearts.”— Vance Havner
“It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God.”— Vance Havner
“A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.”— John Owen