Preaching Quotes
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The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and we - are ungodly people who cannot impress God or escape his tribunal. Until our preaching of the law has exposed our hearts and God's holiness at that profound level, our hearers will never flee to Christ alone for safety even if they come to us for advice.
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The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.
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I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
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My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.
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Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
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The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
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No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
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I have to constantly be doing something; otherwise, I don't feel like I'm reaching the level that I should be.
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We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.
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If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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I feel a particular calling to bring scripture to bear on the lives of others and love to do that through preaching sermons and writing scripture-based, truth-fueled songs that convey God word to people.
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As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.
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The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
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The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.
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Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.
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Preaching the truth without love is like giving someone a good kiss when you have bad breath.
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Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.
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I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.
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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
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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.
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I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
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Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.
