Quotes about Preachers

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone. Votes: 3

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty. Votes: 3

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. Votes: 3

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified. Votes: 3

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection. Votes: 3

Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel. Votes: 3

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules. Votes: 3

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery. Votes: 3

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid. Votes: 3

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that. Votes: 3

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. Votes: 3

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books. Votes: 3

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. Votes: 3

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him? Votes: 3

There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock! Votes: 3

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. Votes: 1

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. Votes: 1

Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money. Votes: 1

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that. Votes: 1

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction. Votes: 1

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples. Votes: 1

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. Votes: 1

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. Votes: 1

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. Votes: 1

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. Votes: 1

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. Votes: 1

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. Votes: 1

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places. Votes: 1

Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen. Votes: 1

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. Votes: 1

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth. Votes: 1

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir. Votes: 1

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. Votes: 1

I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money. Votes: 1

While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered. Votes: 1

Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us. Votes: 1

We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved. Votes: 1

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. Votes: 1

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. Votes: 0

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins. Votes: 0

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace. Votes: 0

People who know how to act are never preachers. Votes: 0

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers. Votes: 0

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? Votes: 0

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Votes: 0

Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt. Votes: 0

Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. Votes: 0

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church. Votes: 0

The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America. Votes: 0

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people. Votes: 0

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds. Votes: 0

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world. Votes: 0

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 0

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. Votes: 0

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Votes: 0

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil. Votes: 0

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? Votes: 0

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching. Votes: 0

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for. Votes: 0

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it. Votes: 0

Beware of dead religions.Beware of teachers & preachers of dead religions.Dead religions promote sin, hatred, violence & intolerance etc. Votes: 0

The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel. Votes: 0

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers. Votes: 0

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody. Votes: 0

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. Votes: 0

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. Votes: 0

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody. Votes: 0

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all "” but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. Votes: 0

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. Votes: 0

When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT! Votes: 0

Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end. Votes: 0

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death. Votes: 0

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them. Votes: 0

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. Votes: 0

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. Votes: 0

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck. Votes: 0

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men. Votes: 0

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie. Votes: 0

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago. Votes: 0

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct. Votes: 0

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary. Votes: 0

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. Votes: 0

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school. Votes: 0

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all. Votes: 0

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. Votes: 0

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday. Votes: 0

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God! Votes: 0

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. Votes: 0

We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur. Votes: 0

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. Votes: 0

The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men. Votes: 0

Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it. Votes: 0

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. Votes: 0

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians. Votes: 0

I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth. Votes: 0

In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and TV and say incredible things. Votes: 0

How beautiful it is to see that young people are 'street preachers,' joyfully bringing Jesus to every street, every town square and every corner of the earth! Votes: 0

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise. Votes: 0

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men. Votes: 0

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. Votes: 0

The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric similar to that of [Donald] Trump. Votes: 0

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them. Votes: 0

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness. Votes: 0

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. Votes: 0

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers. Votes: 0

By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law. Votes: 0

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon. Votes: 0

what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools. Votes: 0

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. Votes: 0

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes! Votes: 0

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty. Votes: 0

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist! Votes: 0

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals. Votes: 0

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you. Votes: 0

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God... Votes: 0

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it. Votes: 0

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs. Votes: 0

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple Votes: 0

Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law. Votes: 0

Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about." Votes: 0

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom. Votes: 0

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction. Votes: 0

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom. Votes: 0

Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life. Votes: 0

Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'. Votes: 0

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages. Votes: 0

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country. Votes: 0

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. Votes: 0

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary. Votes: 0

Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land Votes: 0

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march. Votes: 0

For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them. Votes: 0

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves. Votes: 0

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being. Votes: 0

Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom. Votes: 0