Quotes About Preacher

The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

The fact is, in Mike Huckabee's case, he can say, 'I was a preacher, I'm a Christian, and so I believe that life begins at conception, ends at natural death.'

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

My dad was a preacher.

I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

I don't think of myself as a preacher.

My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.

Ellie had seen the preacher in town, and although Mrs. Jones said the church was open to everyone, he was closed-off. Judgmental. His probing eyes held accusations of sin and damnation, not forgiveness and tolerance

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

Apocalypse Hal was on the corner by the Laundromat. Hal was a neighborhood street preacher who worked at the fish and crab place next door. He wore a sandwich board sign of Bible verses and shouted angry things at passersby like "The end times are near" and "Seafood sampler $5.99." Now his sign just read "TOLD YOU SO," and he looked more anxious than angry.

When a preacher opens the Bible and interprets the word of God, a mystery takes place, a miracle: the grace of God, who comes down from heaven into our midst and speaks to us, knocks on our door, asks questions, warns us, puts pressure on us, alarms us, threatens us, and makes us joyful again and free and sure.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

Christian Identity preacher Wesley Swift, whose racist teachings included that Adam and Eve were white, that nonwhites have no souls, and that Jews were the offspring of Satan. Before 1967 ended, the White Knights began bombing Jewish homes and synagogues.

Some though Dad was irreverent--that he was not respectful enough. Once, a visiting preacher concluded his sermon by yelling to everyone that all the televisions should be thrown into the river, all the stereos and radios should be thrown into the river, and all the miniskirts and bikinis should be thrown into the river. When he finally sat down, Dad approached the pulpit and said, "Please rise and join me now in singing hymn number 481, 'Shall We Gather at the River.