Preaching Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Ghost, Holy, Mankind

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.121

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• The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

  Josephine Baker

  Brother, Hate, Believe

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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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• Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.

  Mark Hart

  People, Fruit, Bears

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• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Looks, Sanctuary

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

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• Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

  David Platt

  People, Church, World

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• As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

  John Newton

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  John Newton (2001). “The Voice of the Heart”, p.140, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song.

  Michael Moore

  Song, Needs, May

  USA Today, June 20, 2004.

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• It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Attitude, People

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.79, Orbis Books

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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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• The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Character, Light, Praying

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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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• In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Teaching, Sacred

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• Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Compassion, Church

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.207, Three Rivers Press

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