Preaching Quotes

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.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.

There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

I am very confident in preaching.

Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

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

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord's children

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

Look at the European Parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions, for - who are sort of preaching policies of - well, very unfriendly policies.

What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

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

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.