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People who know how to act are never preachers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed. — Jean de la Bruyere
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the… — Margaret Mead
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to… — Martin Luther
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher. — Martin Luther
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher. — Billy Carter
This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or… — Frederick Lenz
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good -… — Muddy Waters
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. — Vance Havner
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer… — Vance Havner
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power… — Vance Havner
A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at… — Vance Havner
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of… — J. Irwin Miller
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing… — Lamorne Morris
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid. — Dorothy Malone
It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I… — Stephen Jay Gould
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the… — Charles Colson
Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church. — Wes Bentley
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. — Wes Bentley
Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that. — Duane Chapman
To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God… — Roland Allen
Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be. — Garth Ennis

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