Preaching Quotes - Page 15

• Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

  Edith Hamilton

  Poetry, Together, Pulpit

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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• Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Youth, Young, Caution

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• Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Beautiful, Fashion, People

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• We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Lessons, Fists, World

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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• We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

  Joseph Cook

  Religious, Men, Judging

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• When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.

  Nur Muhammad Taraki

  Party, Class, Names

  "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.

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• Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Glasses, Style, Littles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 481. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Eggs, Oval

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• the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Sex, Men

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• Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.

  John Angell James

  Love Is, Joy, And Love

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 478, 1895.

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• It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Children, School, Sunday

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.

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• Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

  John Selden

  Firsts, Written

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.224

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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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• I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

  Fred Durst

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Heaven, Liberty

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.299

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• There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Different, Emotion, Cliche

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• I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

  Annie Lennox

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

  Michael Azerrad

  Musician, Stories, Bunch

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

  Martin Luther

  Latin, Simple, Doctors

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• what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Good Man, World

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

  Frederick Buechner

  Book, Writing, Speak

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

  Frederick Buechner

  Church, Tradition, Reason

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back, there have been glimpses I've had. Sometimes literally a glimpse which made me suspect the presence of something extraordinary and beyond the realm of the immediate. That's what I think a lot of what my writing has been, my preaching has been - trying to listen to that voice again, to see those moments again.

  Frederick Buechner

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

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• The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Tired, Sunday, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We can preach the Gospel all day long, but that won't win souls. That won't win the hearts of the people. We can talk, try to theorize, theologize, reason, argue, debate, and spend time trying to prove that Jesus lived, but that won't win a heart. How often do we see the religious mindset that believes that the more Scripture quoting, the more yelling, the more hell fire and brimstone preaching, the greater the chance to win someone over for the Kingdom? Likewise, how often do we see people sitting or standing there listening in stone-cold silence or indifference?

  Todd Bentley

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

  Todd Bentley (2011). “Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life”, p.38, Destiny Image Publishers

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