Preacher Quotations

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

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

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

I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

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

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

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

I'd make a bad preacher.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, ""Dust to dust,"" some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, ""I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun.

I would say something or ask about the preacher and people said I was lying. So I denied it to myself for a long time. I quit trying and I separated myself from what was happening.

Martin's real dream was to be a preacher at this church.

I might resume the habit of going to church if the preacher would be honest enough to stand up some morning and say, "Perhaps next Sunday, but not today," and then sit down

That was the day I became pastor, ... Up until that time, I was the hired preacher . ...

You'll get pie in the sky when you die (The Preacher and The Slave)

The preacher was reminding us of our ABCs. To accept what your situation is, believe that it will be taken care of and know that you will celebrate one day.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

Breaking it in the middle of the season is pretty impressive. But he's so much more than just a good wrestler. He's a great leader and motivator for us. The guys started calling him Preacher Moody because he lifts everyone up in the room.

Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

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.

As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

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.

A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife.

It removes the preacher from the community, ... and I've got some problem with that. Ministry requires an ongoing dialogue with the community.

For CNN to tap an unapologetic preacher of hate signals a desperate and misguided ploy for ratings without regard for the thousands of Americans Beck has offended with his malicious commentary.

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

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.

I honestly do not know who convinced America's blue collar workers that the federal government was set up to protect them, but I suspect it was P.T. Barnum or some preacher turned politician.

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

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

I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

You've got to put me on a different scale than the little black preacher sitting over there that's supposed to be just getting by because the people are suffering.

The girl I was dating heard this preacher on the radio, and she thought his message was something I should hear. I thought, Great, a preacher. Just what I need.

The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

And a long tall woman will make a preacher lay his Bible down - But a big, fat mama will make a mule kick his stall down

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

I guess God has a sense of humor, when he had a man that wanted to start his life as a priest, end up marrying a preacher.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

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.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

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

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

He preaches well that lives well

Bien predica quien bien vive. He who lives well is the best preacher.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.