Preacher Quotes - Page 26

• I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

  Andy Andrews

  Christian, Speakers

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• THE FACT THAT MY DAD IS A PREACHER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T AGREE WITH SOME OF MY MATERIAL BUT THEN AGAIN THERE'S NO SIGN ON MY COMEDY EVENT THAT SAYS "REVIVAL HERE TONIGHT". IM SURE GOD HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN GO TO MY 8 OCLOCK OMAHA SHOW. THE SHOW IS THE SHOW AND CHURCH IS CHURCH.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Dad, Important, Church

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Horse, Dad, School

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.

  Max Lucado

  People, Treasure, Want

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

  Max Lucado

  Teacher, Church, Roles

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

  John Selden

  Believe, Physicians, Disease

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.145

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• You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

  Rebecca Solnit

  What Matters, Style, Pleasure

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

  David Cross

  Funny, Humor, January

  "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

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• I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

  Bill Maher

  Mirrors, Church, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of hate. Go to the preachers and they will say, "Try to love." They are talking nonsense because how can a person who is full of hate try to love? If he tries to love, this love will come out of hatred; it will be poisoned already, poisoned from the very source. And this is what the misery of all preachers is.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Hate, Talking

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• If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire...if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores...if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote...if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time...if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream...and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love...then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Badass

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Devil, Judgment

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• The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religion, Church

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• Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

  H. G. Wells

  Jesus, Nazareth, Great Christian

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• Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Faith, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

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• As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Men, Bread Of Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

  William P. Young

  Dad, Father, Years

  "'Cross Roads': A Writing Career Built On Faith". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 1, 2012.

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• People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

  Paul Washer

  Men, People, Pedestal

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

  Jonathan Swift

  Time, People, Giving

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.222

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• Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fire, People, Deals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

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• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Brother, Father, Agriculture

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