Attention Quote by Frank Herbert

Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.

— Bret Stephens

Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible.…

— Robert H. Schuller

If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet…

— George Henry Lewes

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

— Jodi Picoult

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

— Charles Spurgeon

Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons…

— Bruce Barton

“Being caught by the lord of speech may start with just a reasonable conviction about what we feel to be true. However, if we…

— Pema Chödrön

It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are…

— S. D Gordon

We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses:…

— Pope Francis

Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil,…

— Martin Luther

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

— Anonymous

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

— John Berridge