Best Preacher Quotes
342 Preacher quotes by 269 unique authors
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I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything…
— Evander Holyfield
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The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.
— Jack Hyles
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be…
— John T. Flynn
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Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be…
— John Dean
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As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.
— Paul Washer
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I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
— Billy Graham
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach…
— Malcolm X
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I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was…
— Mel Gibson
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I can remember one time a guy told me, a guy that preached, he claimed to be a preacher, he claimed to be called of…
— Tim Conway
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Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks,…
— Nick Cannon
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Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
— Wallace Stegner
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Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when…
— Edward Abbey
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If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
— Eugene V. Debs
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For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may…
— John F. Kennedy
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My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
— Thomas Brooks
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It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even…
— John R. Rice
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In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning…
— Paul Robeson
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