Preacher Quotes

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

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.

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

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

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

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

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

He preaches well that lives well

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

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

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

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

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

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

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

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

I've got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who's a Holy Roller preacher.

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.

. . . 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.

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

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

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

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.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

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

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.