preaching quotes

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.

I’ve been known to preach.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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