Preaching Quotes

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

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?

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

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.

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

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

Preaching is truth set on fire.

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.

We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

Preaching is truth through personality.

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

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

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

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

He preaches well that lives well

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

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

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

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

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.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

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.

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

I am very confident in preaching.

Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

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

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.

Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.