Preacher Quotes

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher.

Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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

In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available.

...He made no complaint whatsoever about the bad reputation he had attracted throughout the world, assured me that he himself was the person most concerned by the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that as far as his own power was concerned he had been afraid on only one occasion, which was when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit: 'Dearly beloved, never forget, when you hear anyone vaunt the progress of enlightenment, that the Devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!'

Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith.

The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher.

The old things are passed away and all things become new.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience;

let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

I used to think that kid might become a preacher.

Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first. Yes, says Jesus, you never know about these things. He and Grandpa are drinking cups of coffee and eating ginger snaps. Grandpa says, When are you planning to return to earth? Soon as I finish this coffee, say Jesus. Pretty good, isn't it.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense;

that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

My grandpa was a preacher.

My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.