Evangelicals can’t be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

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

I’ve been known to preach.

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

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

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

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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

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

I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.