Preaching Quotes
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Preaching Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.
— Billy Graham
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
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
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
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.
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
'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.
— Richard Baxter
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
In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
— James Denney
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
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
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
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
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
When we preach gospel of miracles instead of gospel of the kingdom, we are subverting gospel of the kingdom.
— Sunday Adelaja
