We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically ,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart… — James K. Baxter Copy Share Image
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“I could be wrong, but I strongly suspect that preachers are praying less today too. They (we) are certainly talking less about… — J. Gary Millar Copy Share Image
“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth? Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever -… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need… — Martyn Copy Share Image
“Preaching for life change requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. Less first century and more twenty-first… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep… — William Booth Copy Share Image
My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law;… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to… — Henry Grattan Guinness Copy Share Image
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As John R. W. Stott has suggested, the art of preaching truly stands “between two worlds”: the world of the biblical text and… — James Emery White Copy Share Image
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
