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• The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Humorous, Love You

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• Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

  Edward Abbey

  Brother, Giving, Dollars

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Average, Today, Chance

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• For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Virginia, Years

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Reading, Ignorance, Self Confidence

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• He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Heart, Ears

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.173

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• It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Men, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Letting Go, Prayer

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• Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]

  John R. Rice

  Christian, People, Heaven

  John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.5, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Kings, Ambition

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• It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Religious, People

  John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.18, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for the truth shall be punished ... Be not deceived: if any man follows him who separates from the truth, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God; and if any man does not stand aloof from the preacher of falsehood he shall be condemned to Hell.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Men, Doe, Kingdoms

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• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Song, Sweet

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

  Kabir

  Hammers, Bears, Admire

  "Bijak". Sakhi, 168. Translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib,

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• I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

  Jessica Hahn

  Thinking, Very Good, Has Beens

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• Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

  Benny Hinn

  People, Growing, Lord

  Benny Hinn (2001). “He Touched Me: An Autobiography”, p.97, Thomas Nelson

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Kings, Lord

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• If the Holy Spirit guides us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

  George Muller

  Christian, Scripture, Spirit

  George Muller (2005). “Release The Power Of Prayer”, p.62, Whitaker House

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• Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Unique, Reality

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• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mean, Men, Soul

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• If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

  Vance Havner

  Trying, Needs, Grades

  Vance Havner (1948). “"That I May Know Him,": A Personal Testimony”

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• The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Party, Sunday

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• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Band

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

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• A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, May, Waste

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