Preaching Quotes - Page 6

• My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

  John Newton

  Heart, Broken, Break

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• If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

  Alexander Whyte

  Moving, Singing, Firsts

  Alexander Whyte (2011). “Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition”, p.462, Primedia E-launch LLC

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• Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

  Richard Baxter

  Prayer, People, Praying

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.125

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• I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

  Francois Fenelon

  Mother, Father, Preaching The Gospel

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• It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Spiritual, Reflection, Wrath

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 11, 1799.

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• Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Men, Giving

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.119

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• A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Not Good Enough, Heaven

  "The Sayings of Doctor Johnson".

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• So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heaven, Lasts

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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• The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Rain, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Harvard University Press

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• Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Teacher

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Names, Done

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Puff, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47

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• The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

  Isaac

  Christian, Ministry, Worst

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• The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

  William Gurnall

  Fall, Devil, Prison

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.1

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• I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream and accomplish some of your goals, but I would never want to do a show where I am preaching to anyone because I do not like being preached at. I want to learn right along with my audience and every show will be a collaborative effort. I am so thankful to Debra Lee and everyone at the BET Network for providing me with this unique opportunity and platform.

  Keke Palmer

  Dream, Unique, Opportunity

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• There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the Spirit. Conversely, there is a kind of preaching that God does not bless, a mere echoing of man’s empty wisdom that is devoid of Christ.

  Steve Lawson

  Men, Doe, Spirit

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• Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions.

  Steve Herbert

  Wisdom, Intelligent, Simple

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• Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Flames, Challenges, Faces

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• Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

  Billy Graham

  Conviction, Preacher, Incapable

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• There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.

  John C. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Song, Real

  "Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

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• If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

  Frederick Buechner

  Preacher, Reach Out, Ifs

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• Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Prayer, Church, Together

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• True preaching is the sweating of blood.

  Joseph Parker

  Blood, Sweating

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• If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.

  Dennis McKinsey

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophy

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