Preacher Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

  Bill Maher

  Mirrors, Church, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Faith, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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• As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Men, Bread Of Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

  William P. Young

  Dad, Father, Years

  "'Cross Roads': A Writing Career Built On Faith". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 1, 2012.

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• The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fire, People, Deals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

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• I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.

  Mark Martin

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Humans

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• People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

  Paul Washer

  Men, People, Pedestal

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

  Andy Andrews

  Christian, Speakers

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• THE FACT THAT MY DAD IS A PREACHER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T AGREE WITH SOME OF MY MATERIAL BUT THEN AGAIN THERE'S NO SIGN ON MY COMEDY EVENT THAT SAYS "REVIVAL HERE TONIGHT". IM SURE GOD HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN GO TO MY 8 OCLOCK OMAHA SHOW. THE SHOW IS THE SHOW AND CHURCH IS CHURCH.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Dad, Important, Church

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Horse, Dad, School

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.

  Max Lucado

  People, Treasure, Want

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

  Max Lucado

  Teacher, Church, Roles

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

  Rebecca Solnit

  What Matters, Style, Pleasure

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, January

  "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

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• The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Book, Inspiration, Hands

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.432, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Childhood, Social

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Long, Preaching, Torment

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238

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