Preacher Quotes - Page 20

• This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .

  Charles Bukowski

  Tired, Thinking, Whales

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• The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Jesus, Character, Compassion

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• I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

  Evander Holyfield

  Spiritual, Godly, Way

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• Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a student better than him or her. Otherwise that person is not a teacher but a preacher. There are tons and thousands of preachers.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

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• Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

  Thomas Betterton

  Real, Actors, Speak

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• The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

  Adoniram Judson

  Religion, Missionary, Christianity

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• It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Men, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks

  Nick Cannon

  Weed, Kids, Marijuana

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• In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Letting Go, Prayer

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• Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]

  John R. Rice

  Christian, People, Heaven

  John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.5, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Kings, Ambition

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• It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Religious, People

  John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.18, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for the truth shall be punished ... Be not deceived: if any man follows him who separates from the truth, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God; and if any man does not stand aloof from the preacher of falsehood he shall be condemned to Hell.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Men, Doe, Kingdoms

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• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Song, Sweet

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind.

  John T. Flynn

  War, Black, Mind

  John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Heart, Ears

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.173

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• My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Reading, Ignorance, Self Confidence

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• For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Virginia, Years

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Confidence, Humility, Two

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• The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Humorous, Love You

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• Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

  Edward Abbey

  Brother, Giving, Dollars

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Fear, Teaching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy but do not want to engage in serious Bible study; they value moral probity, especially of the public sort, but do not engage in war against inner corruptions; they fret over the quality of the preacher's sermon but do not worry much over the quality of their own prayer life. Such Christians are content with mediocrity.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Prayer, War

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.121, Baker Academic

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• We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.

  Jim Thompson

  Mean, Kids, Fighting

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• Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

  Bob Dylan

  Nails, Matter, Deputies

  Song: Shelter From The Storm, 1975

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