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Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.
Charles Grandison Finney
Ministers often expound on the Good News rather than conveying it. They often discuss transgressors instead of addressing them.
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Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
Leonard Ravenhill
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The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?
Leonard Ravenhill
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My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.
Gigi Hadid
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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.
Alan Watts
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You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.
Frances Hesselbein
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
J. I. Packer
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The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.
Harold B. Lee
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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
Mark Twain
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Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.
Alexander Whyte
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The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.
Albert Mohler
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The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
William Gurnall
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Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.
Colin S. Smith
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Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.
Horatius Bonar
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The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.
Martyn
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Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.
George O. Wood
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Do as we say, and not as we do.
[Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]
Giovanni Boccaccio
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Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
Herbert Marcuse
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I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.
Darrin Patrick
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There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.
J. C. Ryle
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I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
Martin Luther
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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
Mother Teresa
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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
Dante Alighieri
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
Woodrow Wilson
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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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In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
Powell Clayton
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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
Frederick Buechner
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The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
John Ortberg
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
William Cowper
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So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.
Emily Dickinson
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Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.
Mother Teresa
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Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
Henry Grattan Guinness
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I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
Martin Luther
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Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.
Billy Graham
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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.
Tom Lehrer
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Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.
Franklin Graham
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Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!
T. D. Jakes