Preaching Quotes - Page 9

• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Wall, Years, Enemy

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• Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Justice, Perspective

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• As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

  John Newton

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  John Newton (2001). “The Voice of the Heart”, p.140, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.

  Pope Francis

  Healing, Needs, News

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.56, A&C Black

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• The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins"

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Jesus, Hands, Would Be

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• I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

  John Wesley

  Religion, Sin, Christianity

  John Wesley “The Arminian Magazine: Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption”

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• I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.

  George R. R. Martin

  Philosophy, War, Thinking

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• The Lord's Supper has been greatly instrumental in keeping His cause alive. It is the voice of all believers preaching the Lord's death till He come. He who believes that the Lord did come and die for us, and will come again and take us to Himself, and will not hesitate to regard this last request of our Lord and Saviour.

  Charles Deems

  Believe, Voice, Lord's Supper

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• Alas, how can the poor souls live in Concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected...

  Henry VIII of England

  Light, Giving, Soul

  "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII" by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry, Great Britain. Public Record Office, (vol. XX, part 2, p. 513), 1862.

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• If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.

  Akbar S. Ahmed

  Hate, Technology, Numbers

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• While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.

  Timothy Keller

  Lying, Communication, Responsibility

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.11, Penguin

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• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Looks, Sanctuary

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

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• The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Scripture, Inspired, Holy

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• Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

  David Platt

  People, Church, World

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• The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Conviction, Backbone

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.756, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Teaching, Sacred

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• I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

  John Newton

  Christian, Prayer, Exercise

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.77

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• One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

  Betty White

  Kindness, Animal, Thinking

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.

  William Henry Willimon

  Faithful, Religion, Scripture

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• Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

  Olivia Wilde

  Powerful, Essence, World

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• In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

  Timothy Keller

  Church, Your Past

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• It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Two, People

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• You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Depth, Sin

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• No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

  Horace Greeley

  Long, Kitchen, Resources

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