Preacher Quote by Sebastian Barry Download Open image ““who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven”” — Sebastian Barry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Preacher
“The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“But now that was all gone by, and had left her neither happier nor wiser; and the best she could do with her mornings… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“And who did she have? The thought caught her up short, but then she smiled, remembering the preacher's words. She had the Lord. He… — Carol Cox Copy Share Image
“A good turnout at church today. It had nothing to do with the mild weather and a desire to gossip and everything to do… — Amanda Grange Copy Share Image
“What would God think of her, sitting in this chapel, pretending to be holy? He knew the truth. He knew she was no friend… — Regina Jennings Copy Share Image
“Miz Louisa, she believed in God with all her soul. But she don’t subscribe to church much. She say the way some folk run… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She had never really believed in God. There didn't seem any point in it, and he just seemed so, well, unlikely. But now, a… — Penni Russon Copy Share Image
“She didn’t just preach and cuss and demand. She showed me what was possible—a peaceful Sunday afternoon with the people I loved—and made sure… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“In church she had prayed for contentment. She was thirty, with no husband in sight. A good job, an aging father, a bachelor brother,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for… — Joseph Langford Copy Share Image
“As I do not seem able much to heal, then maybe I can simply be a responsible witness to the miracle of the ordinary… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“In the darkness as we lie side by side John Cole's left hand snakes over under the sheets and takes a hold of my right hand. We listen to the cries of the night revellers outside and hear the horses tramping along the ways. We're holding hands then like lovers who have just met or how we imagine lovers might… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share
“His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“The knives opened the flesh like they were painting paintings of a new country, sheer plains of dark land, with the red rivers bursting… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“There is a craziness in it all that betokens a kind of delicious freedom. Notions are cast off. If only for a moment. They… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great landscapes of my childhood because he used to evoke it with his stories. He taught me the sequence of ranks in the British army when I was about eight. I was in the bed with… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share
“Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane -… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher. — Billy Carter Copy Share Image
A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
