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Reaching Quotes - Page 3

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.41, OUP Oxford

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

Alexander Whyte (2011). “Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition”, p.417, Primedia E-launch LLC

And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.116, eBookIt.com

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

"Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (2008). “He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World”, p.51, Moody Publishers

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.439

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

John Stott (2012). “Basic Christianity”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

Preach the gospel to yourself every day.

Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.41, Tyndale House

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

Herbert Marcuse (2004). “The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.62, Routledge

Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.

Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,