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If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen. — Mark Batterson

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke. — Martin McDonagh

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work. — John Piper

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past. — John Rucyahana

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself. — Alexander Whyte

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. — Powell Clayton

Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida, — R.C. Sproul

The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children? — George Whitefield

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit. — Steven J. Lawson

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come. — Joel Osteen

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word — John Owen

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer. — Jim Cymbala

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh. — Jimmy Carr

Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15 — Calvin Miller

Your task in preaching is not to get through your message. Your task is to get through to your audience. — Bill Curtis

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. — Richard Baxter

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin. — John Wesley

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection. — Billy Graham

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. — Tony Reinke

A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn. — Todd Stocker

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. — Richard Baxter

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence. — Herbert Marcuse

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. — Geraldine Brooks

I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey. — Santosh Kalwar

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world. — Paul Craig Roberts

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching. — Frances Hesselbein

To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating. — Calvin Miller

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion. — G. Campbell Morgan

I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay. — Martin Luther

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it. — Chan Kilgore

I preach a Gospel not of despair but of hope for the individual, hope for society, and hope for the world. — Billy Graham

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit. — Olabisi Obideyi

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music. — Harold B. Lee

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis Of Assisi

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir. — Trent Reznor

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more. — John Lennox

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion. — G.K. Chesterton

Preaching is necessary not because it's a magic but because God has ordained it for the justification and sanctification of sinners. — Michael S. Horton

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? — William Booth

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton. — Harold Holzer

If my preaching of this cross is not an offense to the natural man, I am misrepresenting it. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Even the preachers get preached by life — Alok Jagawat

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world. — David Platt

God's strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching. — Billy Graham

This is a day in which one of our great perils is that of doing a thousand little things to the neglect of the one thing, which is preaching.6 — John F. MacArthur Jr.

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach. — Sunday Adelaja

Preaching reveals God in action here and now
for ME. — Eugene H. Peterson

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented. — Anthony Trollope

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. — Max Lucado

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble. — Richard Baxter

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too. — Mark Twain

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry

Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching? — Leonard Ravenhill

Preaching love disguised as hate is worst than screaming aloud to the world the darkness within you — Mark W. Boyer

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring. — Timothy Keller

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message. — Franklin Graham

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. — Roy L. Smith

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon. — Phillips Brooks

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows. — John Newton

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching? — Steven Brust

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful. — James Denney

Don't forget your own self while preaching to others. — Umar

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. — Abraham Lincoln

Proclaiming "the whole will of God" should be the goal - and the joy - of every church and every preacher. — Billy Graham

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff

that simply teaching doctrine or preaching on a matter does not equate to actual ministry. Further engagement is required. — Mark A. Yarhouse

Preaching, then, is proclaiming God's desire to take hearers from where they are to where God wants them to be through the gospel. — Julius J. Kim

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching. — Leonard Ravenhill

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew. — Jack Hyles

Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News. — Billy Graham

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them. — Charles Grandison Finney

You are singing to the preacher," said J.Lo.
"Preaching to the choir," I corrected him.
"Yes. This thing. — Adam Rex

People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice. — Orrin Woodward

There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching. — Francis Of Assisi

I've been through hell in this life, yet risen up and survived.
I felt pity after heard that boy's preaching about motivation. — Toba Beta

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become — Sunday Adelaja

Preaching is truth set on fire. — Jack Hyles

Our preaching is not the reason the Word works. The Word is the reason our preaching works. — H.B. Charles Jr.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. — William Cowper

Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult. — Fred B. Craddock

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God. — Gerhard

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. — Woodrow Wilson

Who is preaching the living word today? — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this. It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues. — Colin S. Smith

When we preach gospel of miracles instead of gospel of the kingdom, we are subverting gospel of the kingdom. — Sunday Adelaja

Preaching the gospel to myself each day is the best way to remind myself that my life in Christ is the prevailing, permanent reality in my life. — Gloria Furman

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. — Charles Spurgeon