Preaching Quotes - Page 25

• If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Way, Christianity

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• The great Creator to revere
  Must sure become the creature;
  But still the preaching cant forbear,
  And ev'n the rigid feature:
  Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
  Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
  For deity offended.

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Laughing, Deities

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 9

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• What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.

  Augustus William Hare

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1848). “Guesses at Truth: Second Series”, p.214

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• Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Book, Essence, Principles

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

  Alexa Chung

  Role Models, Political, Roles

  "Alexa Chung: 'I'm probably not the best role model'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

  Mark Batterson

  Believe, People, Want

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• In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

  Powell Clayton

  Brainwashing, Brainwashed, Horde

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• Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

  Joseph Hall

  Sleep, Loss, Cities

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• Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

  Jeremy Collier

  Character, Looks, Flattery

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• Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Husband, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Struggle, Ignorance, Blue

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• Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

  Hosea Ballou

  Motto, Clergymen, Theme

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• You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

  Rufus Choate

  Air, Want, Association

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

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• Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.

  Thomas Huxley

  Horse, Philosophy, Fall

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• The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Repentance, Protected

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

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• That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Thoughtful, Talking, Going Away

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• I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.

  Walter Cunningham

  Change, Moon, Missing

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• The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

  Halford Luccock

  Tasks, Transformation, Intense

  "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

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• Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Hands, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.800, Delphi Classics

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• Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Kindness, Mean, Self

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sex, Moving, Keys

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• The lilies say: Behold how we
  Preach without words of purity.

  Christina Rossetti

  Lilies, Purity

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Example, Dear

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