Preacher Quotes · Page 5

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

— Hermann Hesse

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

— Albert Schweitzer

We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them…

— Max Lucado

"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses…

— R. A. Torrey

Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or…

— Theodore Austin-Sparks

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

— Henry Allen Ironside

In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a…

— Ignatius of Antioch

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he…

— R. A. Torrey

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!

— John Piper

This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned,…

— Frederick Lenz

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas…

— Christine Jennings

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

— John August

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is…

— Chris Crutcher

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best,…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

— Billy Graham

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the…

— Billy Graham

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

— George Bernard Shaw

Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

— John Piper

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

— Eliza Cook

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to…

— Henri Nouwen

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from…

— Sam Childers