Preachers Quotes

• That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Trouble

• After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Couple

• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Fight
  • Christ
  • Temptation

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Death
  • Preachers
  • Desistance

• I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Jesus
  • Lie
  • Come

• I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • Art
  • Schoolmaster

• A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Change
  • Opinions
  • Wastes

• Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Result

• The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • Delicate
  • Preachers

• Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Great
  • Money
  • Giving

• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Weakness
  • Families
  • Hermits

• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Families
  • Forests
  • Preachers

• Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Power
  • Convictions
  • Preachers

• Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Christianity
  • Vanity
  • Preachers

• The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Children
  • Trouble
  • Preachers

• For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Money
  • Souls
  • Salvation

• False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

  

  Martin Luther
  • False
  • Preachers
  • Virgins

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

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Trees
  • Preachers

• What the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christ
  • Lord
  • Gospel

• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Public
  • Preachers
  • Positiveness