Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry White

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

Dan Aykroyd

I'd make a bad preacher.

John Ortberg

There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.

We did the little things. We always preach doing the little things every day.

Michael Strahan

One thing about Foxy, I know they are going to be physical. That is the one thing he preached here defensively.

Christopher Morley

Only the sinner has a right to preach

More than preaching those things, he did those things.

Conor Oberst

I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.

Adam Hamilton

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

Charles R. Swindoll

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

Edward McKendree Bounds

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

Henry Ward Beecher

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

It was big; we were preaching it all week that we wanted the shutout, ... so we went out and we did what we had to do.

Frederick Buechner

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]

That's what we've been preaching all year: When the other team does something positive, we've got to do something." ()

I've preached at a lot of these fellows' funerals.

We were preaching all week that we wanted to get a shutout,

It was kind of like we were all preaching to the choir.

Jerry Bridges

Preach the gospel to yourself every day.

J. C. Ryle

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

I just preach defense. Everything for us is defense.

J. I. Packer

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time...

Martin Luther

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

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

Martin Luther

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

Michel de Montaigne

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Miguel de Cervantes

He preaches well that lives well

Roland Allen

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Tom Lehrer

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.