Top 25 Preacher Quotes of 66 - Page 2

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

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

Hermann Hesse

Tree, Longing For Home, Preacher

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity, Looks, Preacher

William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.264

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

Martin Luther

Long, Preacher, Preaching

Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

John Piper

Writing, Preacher, Knows

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

Ruben Studdard

I've Learned, Preacher, One Thing

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

Martin Luther

Preacher, Virgins

Martin Luther (1892). “Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther”

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.

John E. Hines

Long, Preacher, Preaching

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

Frederick Buechner

Preacher, Preaching, Reach Out

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

Frank Minis Johnson

Judging, Moral, Preacher

Source: www.achievement.org

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Charles Spurgeon

Use, Lord, Preacher

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

Preacher, Word Of God, Sermons

Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.5

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

Mark Twain

Duty, Preacher, Company

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.303, Univ of California Press

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

Joseph Pearce

Teacher, Love Is, Preacher

Source: www.patheos.com

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Andrew Young

Nonsense, Preacher, Make Sense

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Wallace Stegner

Judging, Prophet, Preacher

Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing, Fiction, Preacher

"Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling the Powers That Be". Wired interview, www.wired.com. July 25, 2012.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

Jessica Hahn

Together, Preacher, Get It Together

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

Billy Graham

Conviction, Preacher, Preaching

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Soldier, Graves, Preacher

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

William Shakespeare

Ends, Should, Preacher

William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.].”, p.359