Preaching Quotes

Preaching Quote of the day

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

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

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?

The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

Preaching grace produces fruit. Preaching law produces nuts.

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more.

If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

I am Me, You are You, I'm just living my life, you should just live your own life, so take back those obscure preaching and do what you are supposed to do

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.