Preaching Quotes

Preaching is truth through personality.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

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.

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

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

He preaches well that lives well

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

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

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

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.