I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“Religion is a giant used car, and preachers have proverbial quotas.” — David Silverman Copy Share Image
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody. — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Preachers who pride themselves on never giving a public invitation to be saved, never calling for a response of any kind, reveal… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“ I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn,… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“Good preachers...are effective teachers, good thinkers, with rhetorical skills, a good voice, a good memory, and the ability to recognize when to… — Robert Kolb Copy Share Image
“The Gospel deals with real problems - loneliness, fear, poverty both financial and emotional, sickness and health, love and lust, joy, patience,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is this that ruins churches, that you do not seek to hear sermons that touch the heart, but sermons that will… — John Chrysostom 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
“If preachers would speak only to men's fancies or understandings, and not meddle too smartly with their hearts, and lives, and carnal… — George Virtue Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
