“A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.” — Todd Stocker Copy Share Image
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are.… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his… — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff Copy Share Image
“Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.” — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death. — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
Many a preacher misses the mark because, though he knows books, he does not know men. — James Stalker Copy Share Image
We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“If people wish to love a 7th century preacher more than their own families, that's up to them, but nobody else is… — Andrew Mueller Copy Share Image
The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God… Those who have the… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
How beautiful it is to see that young people are 'street preachers,' joyfully bringing Jesus to every street, every town square and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
