Preaching Quotes - Page 22

• The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

  Paul Stewart

  Doctrine, Holiness, Hell

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• Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

  John Piper

  Heart, Past, Pastor

  John Piper (2016). “A Camaraderie of Confidence: The Fruit of Unfailing Faith in the Lives of Charles Spurgeon, George Müller and Hudson Taylor”, p.21, SPCK

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• Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

  Lord Byron

  Hymns, Hypocrisy, Vaunt

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

  Richard Hooker

  Light, Torches, Waste

  "The Life of William Ewart Gladstone". Book by John Morley, 1901.

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• God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

  John Piper

  Broken, Grace, Trials

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• Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

  John Piper

  Religious, Religion, Records

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• If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

  Ameen Rihani

  Spiritual, People, Inspire

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• Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Giving

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.11, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Love Is, Shining

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.158, New World Library

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• As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

  Terry McMillan

  Believe, People, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

  Phil Elvrum

  Ideas, Choir, Seems

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Men, Long

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.43, Whitaker House

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• The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

  Steven J. Law

  Blessing, Heaven, Done

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• Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.

  Robert McKee

  Inspiration, Writing, Character

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• If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.37, Polity

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• The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."

  Wynton Marsalis

  America, Musician, Jelly

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  Chavela Vargas

  Eye, Fighting, Pride

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• The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought.

  Peter Forsyth

  Morning, Prayer, Sleep

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• Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Preaching The Gospel, Ministers, Sinner

  Charles Grandison Finney (2002). “The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney”, p.107, Harper Collins

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• But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Law, Grace

  "A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians".

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• At any given time, on our band Drive-by Truckers' shows there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that. A lot of Republicans come see us. I've got many friends and family that are Republicans, so our following definitely cuts across the political lines and all of that. Which puts us in the unique position of not just preaching to the converted. I respect and value that.

  Patterson Hood

  Girl, Cutting, Unique

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• It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

  Martin McDonagh

  Like You, Feels, Jokes

  Source: collider.com

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• If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

  John Wesley

  Order, Soul, Religion

  John Wesley (1871). “Wesley his own biographer, being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements, from his own journals and letters [ed.] with an intr. by G.S. Rowe”, p.158

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• No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and we - are ungodly people who cannot impress God or escape his tribunal. Until our preaching of the law has exposed our hearts and God's holiness at that profound level, our hearers will never flee to Christ alone for safety even if they come to us for advice.

  Michael Horton

  Heart, Law, Profound

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.130, Baker Books

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