{"quotes":[{"text":"At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["applause","blessed","brave","cathedrals","church","churches","civilize","clergyman","creeds","dead","discoveries","elevate","enlighten","errors","fact","facts","failed","falsehoods","generals","genesis","geology","great","harmony","holy-writ","honest","hypocrites","ignorant","lectures","living","mankind","minister","miracles","miraculous","mistakes","money","nature","past","patriot","peers","perfert","philanthropist","philosopher","poet","priest","progress","pursuit","real","recognition","reputation","sacred","school","science","scientific","stlers","superstition","teacher","think","truth","university","use","vapid","waste","weak","wealth"],"id":14144,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"..Each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely aware that his tenure of office maybe very short, so he picks out a major contract for himself from the many available. It's the one way to ensure a pension for life if the government is changed overnight or the minister simply loses his job.","author":"Jeffrey Archer","tags":["government","minister","money","pension","sarcasm","sarcastic-humor"],"id":18004,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Archer"},{"text":"Every Christian should be a faithful minister and steward of God.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["christian","faithful","god","minister","steward"],"id":34639,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.","author":"Elizabeth George","tags":["assignment","assist","christian","follow","god","good","husband","love","marriage","men","minister","pure","truth","wife","women"],"id":64793,"author_id":"Elizabeth+George"},{"text":"Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-pastor","atheist-philosophers","atheist-priest","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","church","clergy","clergy","congregation","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","minister","pastor","pastors","pastors","priest","priest","priests","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":71489,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"The best and only way to minister supernaturally is by being yoked to Jesus, just making yourself into His servant, walking in His ways and imitating Him. Allow Him to change you!","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["minister","servanthood","supernatural"],"id":102269,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can't please everybody all the time, no matter how hard you try. But the greatest honor of the office, from my perspective, is being invited into the lives of people at their very best moments and at their very worst moments.","author":"Matthew C. Harrison","tags":["clergy","clergyman","joy","minister","ministry","pastors"],"id":114936,"author_id":"Matthew+C.+Harrison"},{"text":"The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","minister"],"id":127179,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"...You don't need a calling to minister love...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["calling","love","minister","wisdom"],"id":155026,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"I am being a minister of light and a destroyer of ignorance and I shall never keep quiet until this horrendous mountain is pulled down in my country, in the church of Christ and in my continent.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["church","continent","light","minister"],"id":177510,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}