Preaching Quotes - Page 15

• I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Money, Hands

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.238, NYU Press

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• Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Next, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.334, Harvard University Press

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• Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of the living God.

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Men, Light

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13052, Delphi Classics

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• The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Philosophical

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

  Frei Betto

  People, Heaven, Bourgeoisie

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• There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

  John G. Lake

  Men, Long, Church

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.104, Whitaker House

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Letting Go, Men

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• The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.

  Walter Russell Bowie

  Christian, Church, Doe

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• The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ignorant, Three, Minorities

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• Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven.

  J. Frank Norris

  Bible, Death, God

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• Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Youth, Young, Caution

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• Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.

  John Bevere

  Strong, Healing, Gifts Of The Spirit

  John Bevere (2014). “The Bait of Satan, 20th Anniversary Edition: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.60, Charisma Media

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• He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Littles, Virtue, Abstract

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.7

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• Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

  Alexander Whyte

  Preacher

  Alexander Whyte (2011). “Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition”, p.417, Primedia E-launch LLC

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• The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.

  Andrew Greeley

  Creativity, Creative, Elements

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• To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Soul, Christ

  Martin Luther “The Freedom of a Christian”, Lulu.com

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• T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people - the new covenant, blood-bought people of God. That's why Paul said, 'Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her' (Eph. 5:25). He didn't give himself up for a place, but for a people.

  Mark Dever

  Spiritual, Blood, People

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• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mean, Men, Soul

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• Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.

  Ray Comfort

  Wrath, News, Christ

  Ray Comfort (2004). “Revival's Golden Key”, Bridge-Logos

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• If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, People, Messages

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015

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• The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Answers, Enough

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3608, Delphi Classics

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• My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Energy, Might

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• Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and new and singular blessings descended upon his labors. In two years, his ten preaching places in Anglesea were increased to twenty, and six hundred converts were added to the church under his immediate care.

  Christmas Evans

  Blessing, Men, Years

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• Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Suicide, Mind, Passionate

  Ford Madox Ford (2016). “The Good Soldier: Ford's works”, p.190, VM eBooks

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• If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Common, Instruments

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