Preaching Quotes - Page 20

• My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Energy, Might

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• There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

  John G. Lake

  Men, Long, Church

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.104, Whitaker House

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• If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

  Darrin Patrick

  Heart, Challenges, Ifs

  Darrin Patrick (2010). “Church Planter: The Man, the Message, the Mission”, p.151, Crossway

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• The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Discovery, Blood

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• Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Kids, Writing, Thinking

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Cinema, Stories

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

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• I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Money, Hands

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.238, NYU Press

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• Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Next, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.334, Harvard University Press

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• Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of the living God.

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Men, Light

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13052, Delphi Classics

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• When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

  John Ortberg

  Life Changing, Done, Humans

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• The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Philosophical

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

  Frei Betto

  People, Heaven, Bourgeoisie

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• Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

  Matthew Henry

  Thinking, People, Desire

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• Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Preaching The Gospel, Ministers, Sinner

  Charles Grandison Finney (2002). “The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney”, p.107, Harper Collins

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• There is a meltdown of authority going on in the world and a corresponding increase of lawlessness. The earth itself is also going through travail to give birth to the messengers of power who are sent to prepare the way for the coming of the kingdom by preaching the gospel of the kingdom throughout the earth.

  Rick Joyner

  Preaching The Gospel, Giving, World

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• There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

  David Jeremiah

  Spiritual, Prayer, War

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• Preaching grace produces fruit. Preaching law produces nuts.

  Steve McVey

  Law, Nuts, Grace

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• Those ministers of God who go about condemning me rather than preaching the Gospel they are sent to preach, are doing themselves a great harm. The more they condemn me, the lesser their anointing become. Go round the country today and see what is happening. Those men of God who used to perform great signs and wonder have lost their anointing because of their blasphemies.

  T. B. Joshua

  Country, Men, Preaching The Gospel

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• I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

  Patterson Hood

  Silly, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in.

  Brendon Urie

  Believe, Love Is, Years

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie On His New Album, 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview With Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Running, Jesus

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• Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Strong, Denmark, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Approach, Application

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• For those in the conservative movement to think that you're going to change minds only by preaching to the choir, you don't understand how media works. So that's probably the most potent weapon out there is to go fight the fire, go towards the fire.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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