Quotes About Preaching

To say, "This morning I want to preach to you a doctrinal sermon," is to hear the loud report of a thousand minds clicking off at one time.

Still nobody knows better than those who preach that preaching is an art in which a studied, professional sinner tells the less studied sinners how they ought to believe, behave, and serve.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

Because the secular culture didn't want a Lord, preaching quit saying, "Thus saith the Lord.

Great sermon theses are powerful acids that etch themselves on the "have-tos" of the speaker. They are rarely written down. They don't need to be. They have already been written boldly on the preacher's soul.

When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.

Der ganze Styl seiner Darbiethung erinnerte zwingend an die emotionalen, von einer gänzlich falschen Gnadenlehre inspirierten Predigten gewisser Sectirer, denen noch nicht einmal das Civürecht einen Platz in unserem Gemeinwesen einräumt.

The Buddha preached this sutra for eight thousand eons without resting. When he had finished preaching it, he entered a quiet room and meditated for eighty-four thousand eons.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

The heart of the Pauline proclamation is the Lordship of Christ (2 Cor. 4:5).

He renders this saying, "The good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently" (eis aut?n biazetai, Lk. 16:16). Here is the same use of biazetai in the middle voice.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

My main message is to preach God's word, pure and truthful. But also make it swaggalicious.

When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

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

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.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

Hasel gustosamente lee su Biblia, lleno de celo como vimos todos, Come verdura fresca y papas hervidas, zanahorias y pepinos crudos. Les predica a todos la buena palabra de la temperancia, no come carne, no fuma, no bebe: así debería ser un cristiano".