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• The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Thinking, Neighbor

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• My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

  Dolly Parton

  Eyebrows, Grandfather, Jezebel

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• Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

  Lenny Bruce

  Two, Suits, Never Trust

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• A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Dry, Sermons, Wet

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• The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America.

  Paul Washer

  America, United States, Problem

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• If Cancer is the chastening tool of God, then doctors who are fighting cancer are fighting against the work of God. If a preacher or a Christian believes the sickness is a means of chastening, then he should never pray for relief from the sickness, but rather pray that the cancer will continue to grow until the chastening is completed.

  Ray Comfort

  Christian, Cancer, Believe

  "More Than Just Comfort: An Answer to Cancer". Book by Ray Comfort, 1979.

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• My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.

  Patricia Montandon

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

  Theaster Gates

  Buddhist, Race, Class

  "Theaster Gates’ Monastic Orders". Interview with Ann Binlot, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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• The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

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• So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Men

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• In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he has composed or for the writer who wonders whether he is worthy to write the religious book he is working on. The answer is: Of course not. To ask yourself: Am I worthy to perform this Christian task? is really the peak of pride and presumption. For the very question carries the implication that we spend most of our time doing things we are worthy to do. We simply do not have that kind of worth.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Religious, Book

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• Nurses nurse
  and teachers teach
  and tailors mend
  and preachers preach
  and barbers trim
  and chauffeurs haul
  and parents get to do it all.

  Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

  Teacher, Nurse, Parent

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• The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Stupid, May

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.101, e-artnow

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• Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

  Alice Cooper

  Cells, Order, Law

  Song: Wind-Up Toy, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.

  Gus Hall

  Christian, Dream, Cutting

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• What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Healthy, Command

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Modern Library

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• Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Challenges, Negative, Cynicism

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• A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

  Art Linkletter

  Time, War, Failure

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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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• Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.

  Jack Hyles

  Christian, Divine Order, Flesh

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• I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

  Watchman Nee

  God, Wisdom, Religious

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Mean, Men

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• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  Sallust

  Feelings, Tears, Sincerity

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• We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'

  Paul Washer

  Spiritual, Jesus, Life Lesson

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• I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

  August Strindberg

  Ideas, Theatre, Form

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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