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• Personally, I like one hand preacher curls with dumbbells. You don't have to do 100 pound dumbbells to get a burn. Heck I can do 35- 45 dumbbells and get something out of it. It's also great for guys that travel. It's the one piece of equipment that most hotels always have.

  Phil Heath

  Hands, Guy, Curls

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• While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.

  Timothy Keller

  Lying, Communication, Responsibility

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.11, Penguin

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• If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
  Were each of them once a kiddie.
  A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
  Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

  Ogden Nash

  Teacher, Children, Want

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• Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Soul, Wish

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• It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Running, Science, Acceptance

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.478, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vanity, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.264

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• All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Trying, Finals

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Heaven, Merit, Christ

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Live while you live, the epicure would say,
  And seize the pleasures of the present day;
  Live while you live the sacred preacher cries,
  And give to God each moment as it flies.
  Lord, in my views let both united be;
  I live to pleasure when I live to thee.

  Philip Doddridge

  Views, Giving, Sacred

  Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis (1807). “The family expositor: or, A paraphrase and version of the New Testament; with critical notes, and a practical improvement of each section ...”, p.32

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• Alas, how can the poor souls live in Concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected...

  Henry VIII of England

  Light, Giving, Soul

  "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII" by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry, Great Britain. Public Record Office, (vol. XX, part 2, p. 513), 1862.

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• To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

  John Selden

  Love, Running, Men

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.48

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• Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fall, Passing Away, Tin

  H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

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• Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Teacher

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, Eggs, Perfection

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734

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• We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, People, Unity

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• My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

  Saul Williams

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Use, Speech, Sake

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• How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Too Much, Sin

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

  Vance Havner

  Men, Fire, Two

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Virtue, Martyr

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• Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?

  B. C. Forbes

  Sleep, Men, Watches

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• what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

  Martin Luther

  World, Fool, Return

  Martin Luther, Eugene F. A. Klug (1996). “Sermons of Martin Luther: The House Postils”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment or heaven. That does not mean that they did not preach those things: they did; but not in the first place. They preached Christ, and all those things were included in the preaching of Christ.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  Mean, Heaven, Doe

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