People who know how to act are never preachers.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

— Andy Stanley

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

— Hermann Hesse

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Henry David Thoreau

My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of…

— Sinclair Lewis

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to…

— Timothy Radcliffe

I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell…

— Paul Washer

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

— Libba Bray

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

— Charles Henry Fowler

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

— Adam Clarke

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you…

— Orhan Pamuk

Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the…

— Robert Farrar Capon

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.

— Garrison Keillor

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

— Wes Bentley

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

— Albert Schweitzer