Preaching Quotes · Page 8

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

— E. W. Howe

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

— Jeff Ampolini

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

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

— William Cowper

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

— Walter Russell Bowie

“It's not the approval of the people we seek to please in our preaching, but the approval of the One who sent…

— Jerry Kinard

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

— Alistair Begg

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries…

— Charles Henry Fowler

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open…

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“The preaching of the gospel is not to persuade people to agree with me in my theological views. The preaching of the…

— William Warren Prescott

“Jesus is the perfect name! He who put away his fame! And persecuted in shame! That you will never be the same!…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me…

— Owen Wister

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ,…

— George Whitefield

In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental…

— Ameen Rihani

It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be…

— Pope Francis

We are hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The imam preached there to…

— Steve King

“A sponsoring pastor in Minnesota told a local newspaper, “It would be wicked to just bring them over and feed and clothe…

— Anne Fadiman

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes…

— Aldous Huxley

I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their…

— Pope Benedict XVI

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and…

— Jane Austen

I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching,…

— Doug Pagitt

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of…

— John Ruskin

“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

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

— David O. McKay

“Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

— Albert Mohler

We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.

— Vance Havner

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching,

— Darrin Patrick

“be wary of preaching that is so rigid and unforgiving of human nature.”

— Devin Murphy

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

— Martin Luther

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

— Herbert Marcuse

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

— Anonymous

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

— Charles Spurgeon