Preacher Quotes - Page 10

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Fiction, Novel

  "Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling the Powers That Be". Wired interview, www.wired.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

  Jessica Hahn

  Together, Get It Together, Ifs

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• Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Ego, Church

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• When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

  Tim LaHaye

  Lord

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• I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Thinking, Together, Clubs

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.143, Library of America

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• I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

  Mojo Nixon

  Religious, Hate, Army

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• Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Air, People

  "The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

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• A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

  Joel Osteen

  Kids, World, Rebellious

  "Interview: Joel Osteen on Life, Tragedy and Why He Shuns 'Prosperity Gospel' Label". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

  Joel Osteen

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

  Joel Osteen

  Children, Blessed, People

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• My grandpa was a preacher.

  Dolly Parton

  Grandpa

  "Bbaaccss1 'Joyful Noise' Stars Dolly Parton And Queen Latifah Go Gospel". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• 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

  Writing, Knows

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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

  Nonsense, Make Sense, Ifs

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• Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Spring, Missionary

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• Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Comforting, Comedian, Musician

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Song, Silly, Fall

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Morning, Sunday, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.56, St. Martin's Press

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• Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Devil, Firsts

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.430, Faber & Faber

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• The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

  Wallace Stegner

  Judging, Prophet, Entertainers

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

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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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