Quotes About Preaching

EVERYONE considers themselves to be wise, so NONE needs ANYONE's advice and SOMEONE who speaks OFTEN with the word like 'Your', 'Yourself' and 'YOU' in voice or thoughts is just preaching and projecting own self to be nice to the people by being an ADVISER only.

Just see what type of people are teaching or preaching us the lesson on morality and, most surprisingly, many often call them celebrity

More often than not, the sycophants easily get high incentive with promotion whereas an intelligent or truly deserving person is given merely five to ten preaching reasons by the top brass as why he could not get any salary hike & next upper position in the private sector organization.

One who enjoys own luxurious lifestyle by being idle but bumptiously loves to preach others about the importance of hard work through lengthy, empty speech publicly, is the most ideal person to be in politics.

Practically EVERYONE considers themselves to be a wise in their own lives, so NONE likes to be given any preaching or an advice by ANYONE on anything ; but still if SOMEONE appreciates or seeks it constantly from other person, then the people ought to unearth that guy's real intention or the truth that hides often behind their relationship in a world full of lies.

The barometer of a person's living is her/his suffering , but if someone is preaching often to everyone to be enjoying life and being happy all the time , then the people should be watching closely as what s/he is actually doing for making her/his living for leading a lavish lifestyle.

They are not motivating ,but just advocating and even preaching that they themselves are not practising in own life and the same is clearly reflecting in their voice ,often nice, and thoughts fraught with advisory words like 'YOURSELF', 'YOUR' and 'YOU' and ,most surprisingly, such people seen on public dais are only growing monetarily.

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!

Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult

Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy.

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

The really funny thing is that most all of my friends who are priests have seen me perform, and they say, 'I wish I could talk the way you do on stage. I wish I could reveal truth to my congregation the way you do.'

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

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

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century. Yet, the problem is particularly and essentially woman's. Distraction is, always has been, and probably always will be, inherent in woman's life.

A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good so that they become entrenched in their sinful state betrays the gospel's call…A preaching that awakens, a preaching that enlightens—as when a light turned on awakens and of course annoys a sleeper—that is the preaching of Christ, calling Wake up! Be converted!" —January 22, 1978

Christianity is a high moral system based on the preaching of a destitute ascetic.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.