I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
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