Preacher quotes
66 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!"
"The defects of a preacher are soon spied."
"Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience."
"Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart."
"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers."
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"He preaches well that lives well"
"I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching."
"False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins."
"If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently."
"Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty."
"He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher."
"Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction."
"I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer."
"My grandpa was a preacher."
"Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace."
"Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end."
"I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more."
"What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health."
"The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought."
"People who know how to act are never preachers."
"There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached."
"It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head."
"Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well."
