Preaching Quotes - Page 10

• Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wire, Way, Hours

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• In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Artist, World

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

  Horace Greeley

  Long, Kitchen, Resources

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• Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

  William Henry Willimon

  Faithful, Religion, Scripture

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• The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Running, Circles, Groups

  "Preaching as Counseling : The Unique Method of Harry Emerson Fosdick". Book by Edmund Holt Linn, 1966.

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• I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Long, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Singing, Church

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• What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

  William Booth

  Struggle, Men, Preaching The Gospel

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'

  Christopher West

  Sex, Divorce, Cutting

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• It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Men, Doors, Guarantees That

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• Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

  Jack Hyles

  Fire, Ice, Pulpit

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• Preaching is truth set on fire.

  Jack Hyles

  Fire

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• The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Race, People

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• Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

  David Cortright

  Bars, Moral, Strategy

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• Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Christian, Spiritual, Birth Defects

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• So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Modern, Ideals

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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• For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.

  Gilbert Tennent

  Men, Reason Why, Christ

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• Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.

  Edward Feser

  Yelling, Chinese, Fool

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• The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feet, Facts, Orators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Рипол Классик

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• Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Education, Men, Practice

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!

  Ann Bridge

  Numbers, Names, Envy

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• If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.

  Akbar S. Ahmed

  Hate, Technology, Numbers

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• Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

  Richard Armour

  Money, Ideas, Needs

  Richard Armour (1970). “American Lit Relit”

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• I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

  Trent Reznor

  Marketing, Choir, Found

  "The nine lives of Trent Reznor". Interview with Mark Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2013.

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• I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Found, I Believe

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