Preacher Quotes

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Chained in a cell, got my own private hell. Preacher crucifies me, warden wants to fry me.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the music is strictly from the soul, strictly improvisational.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

I'd make a bad preacher.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

My grandpa was a preacher.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

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

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher... but..."

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.