Preacher Quotes - Page 25

• I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

  Barry Goldwater

  Believe, Tired, Thinking

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Examination, Evening

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.242, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Knowing, Discipline, Interesting

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• You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

  William Faulkner

  Baptists, Old Testament, Ulysses

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Discovery, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

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• A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

  Stephen King

  Country, Religious, Hypocrite

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Clever, Men

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• All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Book, Men, Islands

  1624 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.17.

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• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Hypocrisy, Faithful

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Looks, Trouble

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

  Abbi Glines

  Daughter, Sin, Catch Me

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Christian, Religious, Book

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “The Neon Bible”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sorry, Needs, Defining

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.

  Matt Chandler

  Believe, Home, Baptists

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• The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Religious, Reality, Spurgeon

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• Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Glasses, Church

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

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• The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religion, Church

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• The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

  Lou Rawls

  Relationship, Doe, Said

  Song: Wife

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• I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

  Tammy Wynette

  Religious, Making Love, Religion

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• I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Wise, Men

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• For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Way, Facts

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• Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Perfect, Remember, Century

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 476), 1895.

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• Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass him about! Let no Christian who sins in the dark think that he is unobserved. He is compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses! Assuredly in Heaven they know what goes on on earth.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

  John R. Rice (1941). “Tears in Heaven”, p.13, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Devil, Judgment

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• Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

  John Selden

  Believe, Physicians, Disease

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.145

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