Preacher Quotes

• 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.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Nature
  • Wood
  • Sparrow

• 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.

  

  John Calvin
  • Steps
  • Preacher
  • Sermon

• Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Small

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

  

  Martin Luther
  • Word Of God
  • Preacher
  • Sermon

• It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Time
  • Principles
  • Chief

• In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.

  

  William Archibald Spooner
  • Preacher
  • Whenever
  • Aristotle

• Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Should
  • Ends
  • Conscience

• My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

  

  William P. Young
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Difficult

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

  

  George Whitefield
  • Offense
  • Preacher
  • Hearer

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Truths
  • British
  • Churchgoer

• Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Political
  • Church
  • Brother

• Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.

  

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick
  • Age
  • Opinion
  • Atheism

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

  

  Martin Luther
  • Teach
  • Skill
  • Preacher

• 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.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Experience
  • Musician
  • Folk

• 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.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Feelings

• Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. “Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we’ve become.”

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Studied
  • Preacher
  • Fits

• Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

  

  Wes Bentley
  • Family
  • Church
  • Spirituality

• I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

  

  Watchman Nee
  • School
  • Religious
  • Kitchen

• 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.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Proud
  • Things
  • Preacher

• Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Kids
  • Smoking
  • Weed

• Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

  

  Wes Bentley
  • Church
  • Preacher
  • Methodists

• The wise preacher of Ecclesiastes might say, “There is a time for everything—a time to be laid-back and a time to be outraged; a time to be tolerant and a time to stand up and say, ‘I’m not going to take this anymore.’” The challenge for all fighters, of course, is to be sure they find out what is now truly worth fighting against, and then to be sure they have something that is truly worth fighting for.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Challenge
  • Fighters
  • Ecclesiastes

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

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Looks
  • Vanity
  • Preacher

• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Church
  • Minister

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