Preacher Quotes - Page 11

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

  Isaac

  Christian, Ministry, Worst

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Individuality, Literature

  "Stories, Essays, & Poems".

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• My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

  Katy Perry

  Mother, Dad, Emotional

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• I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

  Watchman Nee

  God, Wisdom, Religious

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

  August Strindberg

  Ideas, Theatre, Form

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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• Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

  Jimmy Buffett

  Honesty, Crazy, Simple

  Song: Fruitcakes, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

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• In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said job creation was automatic. I wish it were true. Just a short while after hearing, from the same preachers, sermons about how globalization and opening up capital markets would bring them unprecedented growth, workers were asked to listen to sermons about "bearing pain." Wages began falling 20 to 30 percent, and unemployment went up by a factor of two, three, four, or ten.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Pain, Philosophy, Fall

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• Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

  Victoria Jackson

  Fun, People, Mind

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lonely, Men, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• We think revival means a silver-tongued preacher, some good music, and a few folks who decide they're going to join the church. No! Real revival is when people are eating at a restaurant or walking through the mall when they suddenly begin to weep and turn to their friends and say, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I know I've got to get right with God.

  Tommy Tenney

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

  Tommy Tenney (2005). “God Chasers”, p.48, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Science, Doctors, Two

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. … If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors.

  John Lennon

  Jobs, Taken, Artist

  KFRC RKO Radio Interview, December 8, 1980.

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• I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, People, Church

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• No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teacher, Children, Men

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.462, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.

  Paul Washer

  Order, Shoes, Ties

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• I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let me repeat this: the malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else; it is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, and evangelist of our day. That is where the malady is to be found.

  Paul Washer

  Country, Roots, Ignorant

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• We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Jesus, Life Lesson

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• The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Word Of God, Seeds

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.122, Editora Dracaena

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• True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide behind their own good works. This is the reason that self-righteous people are so angry with gospel preachers, because the gospel does not spare those who will not submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ!

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Mean, Self

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