Preaching Quotes - Page 11

• I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Prejudice, Done, Baptists

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• On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

  Eric Burdon

  Memorial Day, Men, World

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• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Hypocrisy, Faithful

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The way I see it you can never learn enough about the Bible. You can never learn all the answers. I love the way the instructors present it and break it down to you. It's helped me greatly in preaching the gospel.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Bible, Preaching The Gospel, Answers

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• The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

  Martyn

  Men, Fire, Theology

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• Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Encouragement, Inspiration

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• Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

  Mary Douglas

  Jealousy, Believe, Frustration

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• I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

  Tim McGraw

  Decisions You Make, People, Guy

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• Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Compassion, Church

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.207, Three Rivers Press

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• Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

  Keith Richards

  Littles, Taxes

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.13

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• The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feet, Facts, Orators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Рипол Классик

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• Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Education, Men, Practice

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right hand, and is living to save all who put their trust in Him. That is why those of us who really know the Gospel never have any crucifixes around our churches or in our homes. The crucifix represents a dead Christ hanging languid on a cross of shame. But we are not pointing men to a dead Christ; we are preaching a living Christ. He lives exalted at God's right hand, and He "saves to the uttermost all who come to God by Him."

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Father, Home, Men

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• I just love preaching.

  Max Lucado

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get four new people baptized each week. When asked, "What happens if they can't meet the quota?", his response was, "Then I'll find two students who can". This man wasn't even remotely interested in true gospel preaching. He was results-driven.

  Mark Dever

  Responsibility, Men, Two

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail - do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail - gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high!

  Bill Maher

  Ideas, Oxycontin, Jail

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world; it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness; we know it because God has revealed it.

  Mark Dever

  People, World, Levels

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• If you say that the gospel lays a claim upon people, then you are invading their personal space, and they feel as though you have no right to be there. Now we don't even begin preaching the gospel until we get into their personal space and they feel the demands of God upon them.

  Mark Dever

  Preaching The Gospel, Space, People

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I do want to pray for the Lord to glorify himself and, yes, I also will pray for an outpouring of his Spirit, but I also will rejoice in what he is doing now, and I will try to be a faithful steward of the gospel by preaching it "in season and out of season", as Paul reminds us. So I want to be careful not to make an idol out of revival, or to rely upon it to the point where I don't plan for evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Idols, Rely Upon, Faithful

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• From the very beginning, I started preaching when I was 16 years old. So I began studying Scripture very seriously. I had done over a hundred revivals in Baptist churches before I was 20. So I am studying the Scripture as a kid and I'm noticing that Christians often wanted to excuse God from things that God doesn't need excusing from.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Kids, Years

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Long, Giving

  Source: sojo.net

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• My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

  John Ashbery

  Moving, Political Revolution, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

  Maya Angelou

  Baby, Teaching, Giving

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