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How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.
John Knox
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It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.
Abul A'la Maududi
4.
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
Simon Schama
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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.
Myles Munroe
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I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne
Christopher Love
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Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.
Henry Allen Ironside
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Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.
Ray Comfort
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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!
Pope Leo X
11.
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
Vance Havner
12.
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.
John Cowper Powys
14.
Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.
Alexander Whyte
16.
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
J. I. Packer
17.
Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.
Mark Lowry
18.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
James Brown
19.
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Michel de Montaigne
20.
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner
21.
The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
J. C. Ryle
22.
Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
Garth Ennis
23.
I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.
Ozzy Osbourne
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
Billy Sunday
25.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
Hermann Hesse
28.
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
Martin Luther
29.
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
John Piper
30.
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.
Frank Minis Johnson
31.
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.
John E. Hines
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False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
Martin Luther
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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.
Charles Spurgeon
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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
Frederick Buechner
35.
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.
Ruben Studdard
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
Andrew Young
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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.
Mark Twain
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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
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Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.
Joseph Pearce
40.
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.
Billy Graham
42.
Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.
Jessica Hahn
45.
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
Wallace Stegner
46.
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
Friedrich Nietzsche
48.
I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!
Charles R. Swindoll
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Adam Clarke
50.
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
William Saroyan