Preacher Quotes · Page 9

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

— Abul A'la Maududi

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

— Billy Carter

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

— R. C. Sproul

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man…

— Charles Fox Parham

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

— Simon Schama

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I…

— Ogden Nash

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

— Duane Chapman

“The Internet with its sub-kingdoms of Google, Twitter, etc, can be a good servant for those who will use it as such.…

— Anonymous

“Say a prayer for me, Preacher,” Ben said to Maddox, kneeling over him one last time. Then he did the only thing…

— Annabeth Albert

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which…

— Christopher Hitchens

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be…

— John Wesley

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis…

— Henry David Thoreau

Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me…

— Anonymous

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I…

— John Selden

If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I…

— Charles Spurgeon

The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading…

— Charles Colson

“Almost every person related to me that it was God, not a preacher, who showed them what they were doing was wrong.…

— Darren Wilson

“God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified,…

— Richard Baxter

Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and…

— G. Campbell Morgan

We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in…

— C. S. Lewis

I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Preacher spit on the ground and swaggered over to Billy Bob. Come on, he said, just as though nothing had happened, She's…

— Truman Capote

The preacher is not a chef; he's a waiter. God doesn't want you to make the meal; He just wants you to…

— John Macarthur

“The expository preacher is not one who 'shares his studies' with others, he is an ambassador and a messenger authoritatively delivering the…

— Iain H. Murray

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

— Vance Havner

“She was imprinted on his soul, somehow it had happened, she'd just sneaked in there and made herself at home.”

— V. Theia

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

— Martin Luther

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but…

— Dwight L. Moody

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that…

— Bob Dylan

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Billy Graham

As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a…

— John Ortberg

Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.

— Frances McDormand

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

— Ray Thompson

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

— Bear Bryant

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

— Russell Johnson

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without…

— R. C. Sproul

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

— Rebecca Solnit