Quotes About Preaching

In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

The platform God has given me is the platform of exhortation.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

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

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

True preaching demonstrate the Spirit's power.

Further, it is evident that if pope or other superior command the priest not to preach, who is disposed to do so (as has been said), or the rich not to give alms, the inferior ought not to obey. Wherefore, depending on this command of the Lord, I have not obeyed Pope Alexander's command in regard to not preaching and hence will humbly bear excommunication,1 confident that I will secure to myself the benediction of my God.

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

If you are going to bore people, don't bore them with the Gospel. Bore them with calculus, bore them with earth science, bore them with world history. But it is a sin to bore people with the Gospel.

John Oman warns, "unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God's message, it is certain to be the place where you are vainest in giving your own.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

rien n'est moins tolérant en pratique que les gens qui éprouvent le besoin de prêcher la tolérance et la fraternité.

Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice.

Action flows from character, but character is not so much a matter of innate disposition as of training in the ways of righteousness. Those who respond to Jesus' preaching and submit to his instruction will find themselves formed in a new way so that their actions will, as it were, "naturally" be wise and righteous.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.