Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events,” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit! — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
“Had I known how listening is superior to speaking, I would not have wasted my life preaching.” — Attar of Nishapur Copy Share Image
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.”–1892, Sermon 2285” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I came to believe that my job was not to receive and critique a sermon but to dig into it, to seize… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.” — Elizabeth Johnston Copy Share Image
“Few practices will energize and affect your Christian life as much as sitting attentively under faithful preaching.” — David Mathis Copy Share Image
I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
“It is important to draw out the pastoral consequences of the Council’s teaching, which reflects an ancient conviction of the Church. First,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I'm a blessing to you, then either God will put it on your heart to bless me, or he'll use somebody… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services… — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
