'The congregation and the minister are one,' says Dr. Parker. 'There are men we could not sit still and hear; they are not the proper ministers for us. There are other men we could hear always, because they are our kith and our kin from before the foundation of the world.' Happy the hearer who has hit on a minister like the minister of Mansoul, and who has discovered in him his everlasting kith and kin. And happy the minister who, owning kith and kin with Boanerges, has two or three or even one member in his congregation who likes his minister best when he likes himself worst.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
IT is not because he is a minister that Russell Conwell is such a force in the world. He went into the ministry because he was sincerely and profoundly a Christian, and because he felt that as a minister he could do more good in the world than in any other capacity. But being a minister is but an incident, so to speak. The important thing is not that he is a minister, but that he is himself!英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Your minister may be an anointed bishop, he may be a gowned and hooded doctor, he may be a king's chaplain, he may be the minister of the largest and the richest and the most learned parish in the city, but, unless he strikes terror and pain into your conscience every Sabbath, unless he makes you tremble every Sabbath under the eye and the hand of God, he is no true minister to you. As Goodwin says, he is a wooden cannon. As Leighton says, he is a mountebank for a minister.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
Ecclesiastical prudence is not in every case the highest kind of prudence. The presbytery, the synod, and the assembly are not any minister's first or best sphere. Every minister's first and best sphere is his parish. And the presbytery is not the end of the parish. The parish, the pastorate, and the pulpit are the end of both presbytery and synod and assembly. As for the minister of Mansoul, he was a well-read man, and also a man of courage to speak out the truth at every occasion, and he had a tongue as bravely hung as he had a head filled with judgment.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
"Where are you? Is that you, Don?" It was his father's voice. "Yes, here we are."
"Is Hughie there?" inquired another voice. "Losh me! that's the minister," said Don. "Yes, all right," he cried aloud, as up came Long John Cameron and the minister, with Fusie and a stranger bringing up the rear. "Fine work, this. You're fine fellows, indeed," cried Long John, "frightening people in this way."
"Where is Hughie?" said the minister, sternly.英文原著 · 《Glengarry Schooldays》
Thus it happened that of a Saturday and Sunday there was nearly always a mixed gathering of men at "The Green Tower, and after they had dined they would sit in the tower room and drink old Southern wines from the ex-Prime Minister's country, and talk, or tell each other stories. But the ex-Prime Minister made it a stringent rule that at least one guest should tell one story during his stay, for while he had been Prime Minister a Court official had been in his service whose only duty it was to tell him a story every evening, and this was the only thing he regretted of all his former privileges.英文原著 · 《Orpheus in Mayfair and Other》
I would have gone Prime Minister, but there you go, undervaluing.美剧 · 《Billions》
He was an itinerant minister during the First Great Awakening.美剧 · 《Billions》
Put our people on planes and on video conferences and start negotiations with economic ministers?美剧 · 《Billions》
Okay, but Jacinda, like the New Zealand prime minister who had a baby while in office.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》