Confidence Quote by Timothy Radcliffe

A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross.…

— Sam Childers

“Confidence without humility is arrogance. Humility without confidence is weakness. Confidence and humility are both biblical. And they're equally essential for living a life…

— Steven Furtick

As a preacher I just feel like I have to be honest; I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. I think that's why…

— Jay Bakker

I don't think of myself as a preacher.

— Anita Bryant

People who know how to act are never preachers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able…

— Martin Luther

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

— Rebecca Solnit

“No truth calls louder for pastoral holiness than the link between a preacher’s character and a sermon’s reception. If”

— Bryan Chapell