Preacher Quotes · Page 3

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

— Vance Havner

“His smile was sexual. Devious and tempting. Not tonight, Satan.”

— V. Theia

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

— Scatman Crothers

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

— Jayne Meadows

I'm a preacher; I'm not going to get an abortion.

— Rev. Run

“No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.”

— Steven J. Lawson

“Don't you feel it, beautiful, when we touch, doesn't it shift something in you?”

— V. Theia

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

— Eugene V. Debs

Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways…

— Henry David Thoreau

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

— Charles Spurgeon

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his…

— Helen Rowland

So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged…

— George Bennard

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

— Calvin Miller

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

— Terry Bradshaw

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another.…

— Steve Coogan

I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral…

— Judy Sheindlin

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids…

— Joel Osteen

Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to…

— David Garrow

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of…

— Henry David Thoreau

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of…

— Anonymous

I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world…

— C. S. Lewis

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom,…

— Anonymous

I always say, when I work with younger actresses, "I'm here." Reese says it, too: "We've lived it. We know things. So…

— Nicole Kidman

Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the…

— John August

“Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned…

— Frederick Buechner

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft…

— Paul Robeson

This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they…

— Charles Bukowski

A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's…

— Barry Goldwater

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

— Neil Young

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

— Mark Twain

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

— Tim LaHaye

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

— Alexander Whyte

“But hey, that’s how it goes when you get stuck with a preacher for a daddy.”

— Kyle Idleman

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

— Thomas Hooker

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

— Joseph Pearce

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

— Jimmy Swaggart