Preachers Quotes
128 Preachers quotes by 114 unique authors
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to…
— Steve Coogan
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I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a…
— Robert Duvall
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden…
— Mother Jones
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
— Joel Osteen
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My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base…
— Joel Osteen
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I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed.…
— Joel Osteen
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
— Dr. Seuss
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There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done…
— Billy Sunday
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
— Jonathan Swift
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While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen,…
— John Wesley
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Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin…
— Howard Zinn
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I…
— Barry Goldwater
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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and…
— Jane Austen
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Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
— Joseph Campbell
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Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a…
— Max Lucado
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Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
— Virginia Woolf
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Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't…
— Orhan Pamuk
Who Wrote These Preachers Quotes
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