Minister Quotes Page 2

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past;

it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week.

A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it.

But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person.

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart.

He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.

The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation.

It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew; women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.