My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study… — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone… — Isaac Cline Copy Share Image
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“I am not a teacher or a preacher or a messiah. I cannot teach you anything, for I know nothing. I have… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of,… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
“Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel.… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do.… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, “God help me now to preach… — John Alexander Dowie Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because… — Stephen F Olford Copy Share Image
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image