Preacher Quotes

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I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

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

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

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

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

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

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

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.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

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

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.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

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

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

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

I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully.

Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

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

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!

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

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

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

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

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

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.

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

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

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

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

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

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

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

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