Preaching Quotes - Page 25

• O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

  George Whitefield

  Powerful, Heart, Christ

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.392, CCEL

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• The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Repentance, Protected

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

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• That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Thoughtful, Talking, Going Away

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• I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.

  Walter Cunningham

  Change, Moon, Missing

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• The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

  Halford Luccock

  Tasks, Transformation, Intense

  "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

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• Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Hands, Giving

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.800, Delphi Classics

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• Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Kindness, Mean, Self

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• The lilies say: Behold how we
  Preach without words of purity.

  Christina Rossetti

  Lilies, Purity

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Writing, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Police, Christ, Stranger In A Strange Land

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.346, Penguin

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• The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Evil, Guilt

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are brought to faith only through the supernatural working of God, and He has promised to work-not through human wisdom or intellectual expertise, but through the preaching of Christ crucified and resurrected from the dead!

  Paul Washer

  Believe, Men, Intellectual

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• Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

  Franklin Graham

  Daddy, Doe

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• I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Ideas, Style

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org.

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• A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

  E. B. White

  Cracks, May, Poet

  "One Man's Meat". Book by Elwyn Brooks White, 1942.

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• If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

  J. I. Packer

  Preaching The Gospel, Helping, Ifs

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• Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Southern, Radio

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Government, Years

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• . . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Real, Teaching

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

  James Denney

  Clever, Church, Wonderful

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• What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Men, Shining

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7”, p.129, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• % of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, Usa, Singing

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• To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sex, Moving, Keys

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• Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Example, Dear

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