Preaching Quotes - Page 12

• The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Scripture, Inspired, Holy

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• All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heaven, Wish, Baptists

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• The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Catholic, Church, Prophet

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• We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

  Saint Basil

  Thinking, Achieve, Should

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.180, CUA Press

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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 is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Evil, Benefits

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Divinity, Proof, Survived

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• Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Heart, Son, Blood

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• We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.

  Pope Francis

  Healing, Needs, News

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.56, A&C Black

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• Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Justice, Perspective

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• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Wall, Years, Enemy

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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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• 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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• The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins"

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Jesus, Hands, Would Be

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• We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right hand, and is living to save all who put their trust in Him. That is why those of us who really know the Gospel never have any crucifixes around our churches or in our homes. The crucifix represents a dead Christ hanging languid on a cross of shame. But we are not pointing men to a dead Christ; we are preaching a living Christ. He lives exalted at God's right hand, and He "saves to the uttermost all who come to God by Him."

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Father, Home, Men

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• I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

  Tim McGraw

  Decisions You Make, People, Guy

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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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• Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Giving, Simplicity, Way

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 481, 1895.

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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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• Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment or heaven. That does not mean that they did not preach those things: they did; but not in the first place. They preached Christ, and all those things were included in the preaching of Christ.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  Mean, Heaven, Doe

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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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• In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

  Timothy Keller

  Church, Your Past

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• You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Depth, Sin

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• Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Encouragement, Inspiration

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