So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!
Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.
I hate the idea of anyone thinking that I don't put a lot of thought about the cost to taxpayers. I make our ministers travel to events in vans to pool together.
Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.
I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.
Cabinet government rests on the principle of collective responsibility: Ministers debate and argue in private but then hammer out a common policy which they all agree to support.
Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.
The media understands the system only on the basis of ministers and governments. It seldom sympathises with the people who work within that system.
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.
Limos are fine for prime ministers or presidents who need the security, but there's no need for CEOs or executives to have one as a status symbol.
I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of good grouse moor management.
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
I have changed my Ministers but I have not changed my measures.Iamstill formoderation, and Iwill governby it.
Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.
Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.
I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.
I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's been a congressman for many years, and he's running again.
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.
Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.
Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.
As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
Justin Trudeau certainly understands climate science, as do his ministers. But they're refusing to take action on it because of short-term political concerns.
Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
The certainty with which Cameron informed MPs and Shadow ministers of the specifics of a Labour offer that never actually existed suggests a degree of flexibility with the truth.
Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.
I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy.
He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls.
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
If ministers forget their ruler and establish relationships with foreign powers in order to advance the interests of their confederates, there will be scant reason for subordinates to obey their superiors.
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.
Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie, they look like waiters.
Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
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