Was at a wedding recently & the preacher told everyone to stand next to the one that made your life worth living.… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth. — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“And who did she have? The thought caught her up short, but then she smiled, remembering the preacher's words. She had the… — Carol Cox Copy Share Image
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something… — Khalil Gibran Muhammad Copy Share Image
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Preacher's Daughter' was my Trojan horse, in a way. I'm excited to pull back, be behind the camera instead… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat,… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Agent Brendel: These are the descendants of our Lord. I myself have seen the documents that prove it. We have protected them… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Perhaps preachers today need to think about the assumptions that are common in their congregation - the plausibilities and comforting assurances -… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We think revival means a silver-tongued preacher, some good music, and a few folks who decide they're going to join the church.… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
I was in there standin' by the bed when the preacher bowed his head with the family, the day my grandma die. — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it. — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do… — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be a preacher or have years of training to use your home to love and serve people.” — Alexander Strauch Copy Share Image
If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from… — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or… — John Newton Copy Share Image
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
