Preacher Quotes - Page 18

• People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it.

  Philip Gulley

  Doors, People, Giving

  Philip Gulley (2009). “For Everything a Season: Simple Musings on Living Well”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Voice, People

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• The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Teacher, People, Desperate

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• Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Apostle Paul, Masters, Categories

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.161, Bethany House

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Politics, Moral

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Mold, Saint

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Stars, Fall

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Plus, Stuck

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

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• I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

  Rex Stout

  Children, Book, Sleep

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• The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Blessed, Wine, Blessing

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Kids, Parent, Saint

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Character, Gun, Battle

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

  Hermann Hesse

  Tree, Longing For Home, Forests And Trees

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.

  Watchman Nee

  Book, Men, Religion

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.89, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Maya Angelou

  Forever, Scripture, Earth

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• If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

  Frederick Buechner

  Preaching, Reach Out, Ifs

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• We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only service is always to have to 'offer' something when they are together with other people. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking. Many people seek a sympathetic ear and do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking even when they should be listening.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Thinking

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• Unfortunately, some scientists behave like preachers, delivering sermons to people. What this approach ignores is the fact that there are many threats in our world that must be weighed against one another. If I'm driving my car and find myself speeding toward an obstacle, I can't simple yank the wheel to the side without first checking to see if I'll instead be driving straight into a crowd of people. Climate researchers cannot and should not take this process of weighing different factors out of the hands of politics and society.

  Hans von Storch

  Simple, Car, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.179, e-artnow

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• Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Sex, Atheism, Age

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• I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fool, Made, Dropouts

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• [Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

  Jay Michaelson

  Bob, Poet, Dylan

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Usually I'm able to prepare a message about two to three weeks in advance.I know some preachers don't like that. They want to be finishing it on Friday before they preach it on Sunday, but our worship team really likes me to get it done way in advance.

  Max Lucado

  Friday, Team, Sunday

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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