Preaching Quotes · Page 7

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

— Alistair Begg

“Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.”

— John Wesley

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

— John Muir

I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

— Michael Moore

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

— Frances Hesselbein

Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

— Adam Hamilton

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.

— Armando Iannucci

I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being…

— Brendon Urie

The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the…

— Jim Cymbala

“Mother Teresa said, “there should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take…

— Robin S. Sharma

“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and…

— Mother Teresa of Calcutta

...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can…

— Charles Spurgeon

This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually…

— John Piper

Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era.…

— Francis Schaeffer

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing…

— Martin Luther

“Because the nature of all our God talk is inherently metaphoric and rhetorical, preaching will be a form of poetic rhetorical theology276…

— David Schnasa Jacobsen

I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get…

— Simon Sinek

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

Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and…

— Christmas Evans

The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and…

— Thurman Arnold

People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him.…

— Anonymous

Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple,…

— Martin Luther

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to.”

— J.R. Dobbs

“Preaching the word of God and doing the work of evil. That's how it's done these days.”

— Jeff Ampolini

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.

— Walter Russell Bowie

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

— William Cowper

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

Please don't preach about things you know very well you won't live by.

— Mudcat

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.

— Joel Osteen

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

— Paul Stewart

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

— Richard Baxter

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

— Martyn

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

— Jack Hyles

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

— John Owen

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

— Leonard Ravenhill

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson