Preacher Quotes

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.

I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

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

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

He preaches well that lives well

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

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

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

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

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

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.

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.