Preaching Quotes - Page 24

• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Book, Essence, Principles

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• What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.

  Augustus William Hare

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1848). “Guesses at Truth: Second Series”, p.214

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• What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Preaching is the primary means of growth for the local church. There is a great deal of debate about this in our day, but it is the preaching of the Word that God most uses to build up a church, not only numerically but above all (and far more importantly) in spiritual depth and understanding of the people who make up the congregation.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Spiritual, Mean, People

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• The great Creator to revere
  Must sure become the creature;
  But still the preaching cant forbear,
  And ev'n the rigid feature:
  Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
  Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
  For deity offended.

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Laughing, Deities

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 9

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• If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Way, Christianity

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• If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Practice, People

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Penguin

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• Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Stealing, Goodness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

  Alexa Chung

  Role Models, Political, Roles

  "Alexa Chung: 'I'm probably not the best role model'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

  Mark Batterson

  Believe, People, Want

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• The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

  Noah Webster

  Education, Law, Preaching The Gospel

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• John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Jesus, Blood, Rivers

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• If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Preaching The Gospel, Needs, World

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.58, Gospel For Asia Books

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• Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

  Joseph Hall

  Sleep, Loss, Cities

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• Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

  Jeremy Collier

  Character, Looks, Flattery

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• Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Husband, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Struggle, Ignorance, Blue

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• Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

  Hosea Ballou

  Motto, Clergymen, Theme

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• He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Preaching The Gospel, Doe, Affair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.228

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• You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

  Rufus Choate

  Air, Want, Association

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 481), 1895.

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• In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

  Powell Clayton

  Brainwashing, Brainwashed, Horde

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• Worship is more than music. It’s about these moments we have together as a family, as the church, and a good testimony can be a part of that. Prayer, preaching, the Word of God… these are all things that can be powerful elements as we plan a worship service. And ultimately, you want people leaving your church saying, ‘It was good to have been in the house of the Lord.

  Don Moen

  Prayer, Powerful, People

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• Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Fields, Gone

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2087, Manonmani Publishers

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• Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.

  Thomas Huxley

  Horse, Philosophy, Fall

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