Motivational Quotes

Preachers and preaching

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Preachers and preaching Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Preachers and preaching

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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Smith, Sydney

2.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

Baxter, Bowen

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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Cox, Harvey

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Ballou, Hosea

7.

The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.

Proverb, German

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The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Cecil, Richard

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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa

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To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

Selden, John

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That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don't you come to church tonight? I'm giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don't think so. You don't even know how to get to the Post Office.

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Scorsese, Martin

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Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.

Lunn, Sir Arnold

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Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

He preaches well that lives well.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

Robert, Cavett

19.

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Twain, Mark

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If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

Pentecost, George F.

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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.

Guest, Edgar A.

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But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and recks not his own rede.

Shakespeare, William

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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Luther, Martin

25.

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

Proverb, American

26.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Baxter, Richard

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The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

Franklin, Benjamin