Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Preaching

• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Church Service, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.175, Harvard University Press

• Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Speech, Next, Provocative

• The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Rain, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Harvard University Press

• Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Expression, Moral

• Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Stealing, Goodness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.177, Courier Corporation

• Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Bread Of Life, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.112, Courier Corporation

• The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feet, Facts, Preaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Рипол Классик

• Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.13

• All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Spring, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

• 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

• 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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