Preach Quotes

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Preach the gospel everywhere you go, and, if necessary, use words.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Practice what you preach.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach.

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

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.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up.

We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted;

but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy.

The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

I was this role model for heavy people.

But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really.

But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation.

Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another.

.. But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr.

Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.