“The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a… — E. M. Bounds Copy Share Image
My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study… — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than… — R. A. Torrey 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
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
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
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
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
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
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
“Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor… — Preston Sturges Copy Share Image
It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel.… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do.… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
“My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, “God help me now to preach… — John Alexander Dowie Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because… — Stephen F Olford Copy Share Image
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
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