"Preach not because you have to say something,……" — Richard Whately

"Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say."

— Richard Whately

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47 Quotes by Richard Whately

Richard Whately has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners…
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are…
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the…
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange…
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
Happiness is no laughing matter.
It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of…
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral…

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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I… — Erykah Badu
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter
Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of… — Tony Campolo
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel.… — J. Sidlow Baxter
Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a… — Charles Grandison Finney
I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to… — Dwight L. Moody
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that… — Swami Vivekananda
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical… — Swami Vivekananda
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again… — Swami Vivekananda

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