Preacher Quotes - Page 9

• . . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Doe, Ministry

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.8, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

  Vance Havner

  Blessed, Men, Faithful

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• To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Voice, People, Challenges

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• The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

  Elie Faure

  God, Jobs, Children

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• I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Church, Lame, Way

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  R. C. Sproul

  Fighting, Temptation, Christ

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• Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  Adam Clarke

  Jesus, Honor, Resurrection

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• If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Dirty, Differences, People

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• Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.

  Clay Aiken

  Opportunity, Thinking, Way

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, W Publishing Group

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• Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Drinking, Character

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• Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

  Radhanath Swami

  Compassion, Wrath, Instruments

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• Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

  Calvin Miller

  Commitment, Artist, Becoming

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• It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Credit, Done

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.21, Moody Publishers

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• The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

  Alistair Begg

  Mistake, Tasks, Said

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• Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Kids

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• The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Cutting, Hypocrisy, Patterns

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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• I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music

  Martin Luther

  Art, School, Men

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.340

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• For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Life And Death, Matter, Moral

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• A leader always has one major message, and this weaves into everything he or she does. It remains the primary focus. A leader is to some degree a  prophet, a person with a message. Great leader [sic] see things that others don’t. They preach it until others can see it as well. Their message supports the mission. A leader is a preacher, a person who communicates the fire of the mission. Not all preachers are leaders, but all great leaders will be preachers of one sort or another.

  Phil Pringle

  Fire, Focus, Support

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• The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

  Isaac

  Christian, Ministry, Worst

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• We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, May, Spirit

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield ...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published ; with a Select Collection of Letters Written to His Most Intimate Friends, and Persons of Distinction, in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, from the Year 1734, to 1770 ; Including the Whole Period of His Ministry ; Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed”, p.178

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• A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Women, Successful, Wife

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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