Preacher Quotes - Page 28

• I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Judging, Moral

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

  Lanford Wilson

  Christian, Struggle, Commitment

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• My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

  David Soul

  Teacher, Father, Hero

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

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• I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Years, Tuesday, Mind

  Sir James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916). “Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (Complete)”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

  Adam Clarke

  Men, Seems

  Adam Clarke, Mrs. Richard Smith (1833). “An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.72

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• I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

  Bill Keller

  Understanding, Important, Division

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• "Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God."

  R. A. Torrey

  Son, Sacrifice, Noble

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• Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could.

  Lindsey Graham

  Couple, Gay, Cake

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, www.cbsnews.com. September 16, 2015.

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• The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost.
  Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.

  Oliver B. Greene

  Christian, Baby, Blessed

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• Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

  Joseph Pearce

  Teacher, Love Is

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Believe, Different

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• I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking, Artist, Trying

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

  S. D Gordon

  Men, Faces, Speak

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• These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.

  Christine Jennings

  Kids, College, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Heart, Wells

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.370, Courier Corporation

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• Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

  Frank Dane

  Sin, Ifs, Available

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• Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.

  Sharon Gannon

  Communication, Self, People

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• I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

  Billy Carter

  Race, Motorcycle, Holy

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• I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Girl, Church, Irritated

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, World, Sparrows

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.216, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Word Of God, Sermons, One Word

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

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• In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Religion, Balance, Church

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Dog, Kings, Views

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, Community, Oratory

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Baby, Block, School

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