Preacher Quotes · Page 8

“He was beginning to sound like a charismatic preacher on a Sunday after the welfare checks had been delivered.”

— C.L. Bevill

I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith…

— Myles Munroe

We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when…

— David Cross

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

— Anonymous

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

— Thomas Aquinas

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

— Tullian Tchividjian

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners…

— John William Fletcher

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

— Charles R. Swindoll

I do not think of changing the people through my sermons. It is through preparing my sermons that God changes me. The…

— Albert Kang

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better…

— Oprah Winfrey

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions…

— Theaster Gates

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the…

— Margaret Mead

May we all be in such a condition of soul, such an attitude of heart as will fit us for any little…

— Charles Henry Mackintosh

Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its…

— Francois Rabelais

I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My…

— Larry the Cable Guy

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the…

— Phillips Brooks

And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not…

— John Lennon

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to…

— D. A. Carson

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…

— Cornel West

The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests…

— Hermann Hesse

I was working on a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a small Indiana town. Then I remembered Jim…

— Julia Scheeres

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too…

— Thomas Jefferson

What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The preacher must have, "bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with…

— E.M. Bounds

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family,…

— Ziggy Marley

The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric…

— Tulip Siddiq

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we…

— John Selden

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

— Edith Hamilton

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as…

— John Knox

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

— Sallust

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

— Adoniram Judson

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

— Joel Osteen

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories…

— Bhagat Singh

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest,…

— Jonathan Cain

In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and…

— John Shelby Spong

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich,…

— Robert Kiyosaki

'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there,…

— Joe Gilgun

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word…

— Billy Sunday