Quotes About Preacher

For a man like Preacher to see his little wife struggle and have pain was obviously torture. He was much more comfortable in the role of protector. Mel knew immediately that he wasn't going to be much help. When

Preacher's baby had arrived, and Joe liked babies—he'd been an uncle five times. He'd always thought that by now he'd have a couple of his own. The

Think she'll stay on awhile?" Preacher quietly asked Jack. Jack was frowning. "I think what she does to a pair of jeans ought to be against the law." He looked at Preacher. "You okay here? I'm thinking of having a beer in Clear River." It was code. There was a woman in Clear River. "I'm okay here," Preacher said. *

For now, they were inseparable. The three of them. Preacher kept Paige and Christopher under his protective wing, as though danger loomed nearby and might strike at any moment. When there were no patrons in the bar, Preacher and Paige sat at one of the tables and talked or played cribbage; if Christopher wasn't napping, he was on Preacher's knee.

Shame on you," she said to Jack. "I'm sorry, Melinda. But someone had to knock the shit out of this asshole at least once, and if Preacher had done that, this idiot would never walk again." "Well, if you get into trouble, don't come crying to me," she said, and turned to follow Paige and Preacher into Doc's. *

I must have nodded off. How was Christmas for Paige and Preacher?" "Good," Paul said. "They have some big news. Paige is expecting." "Ah, he did it," the general said with a chuckle. "He showed up for ovulation day." Paul laughed. "He's in a lot of hot water for telling too many people about that." "Yeah, I suppose. But it's so like him, don't you think? He's so damn transparent.

Is Preacher pissed?" "Preacher hardly ever gets pissed," Jack said. "But just for future reference, you don't want to be around when he is.

Want me to give him a little advice before he gets his nose broken?" "No," Jack said flatly. Jack was thinking that breaking his nose was going to feel very good. If Nick put one hand on her, he was going to come apart. "Good," Preacher said. "I haven't been to a good bar fight in years." In

She in some trouble?" Preacher shrugged and put the rack on the counter. "You don't know her, Preacher. Don't know who did that to her face." "I'm not worried about who," he said. "Jesus. I'd love to see who.

Preacher came to the porch. He nodded at her, bushy brows drawn together in a frown that made her almost shudder. "Just send him in," Mel said. "That'll scare them all away." And to her surprise, Preacher smiled so big, for a moment she didn't recognize him. When

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

Lucky Tyler: Yeah, you're here, looking more like the preacher's wife come calling than an overnight alibi. Who's gonna believe I tumbled you? The devil in him was kicking up his heels, goading him to say things he knew damn well would rub her the wrong way. But he felt he was justified in being ornery. He didn't particularly like her attitude either. Devon Haines:What did you expect me to wear? A negligee? Lucky Tyler: I----

I've often heard it said, a preacher Might learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.

in one of those moods, it is not the time for introspection. Beware the preacher because he is beguiling. Because you're intelligent and you like words, and you grew up in a strict moral framework, when you hear arguments mounted against you you can hardly resist answering back. But once you join in, the preacher has you. You cannot win. The preacher will always have the last word. In those moods, you can never stare him down.

Every preacher enjoys own life like anything from birth to mid to old age and then from the public stage pompously says that '' IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE YOUTH TO BRING CHANGE with a mere intention to gain praise for self from the audience.

The voice full of words like 'YOU' and 'YOUR' is that of a preacher, not practitioner as witnessed often.

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. —FREDERICK BUECHNER

For my money, that distinction, hands down, goes to Saul of Tarsus—later Saint Paul, to Christians. Even if you aren't a Christian, hear me out: He was the first-century convert to the teachings of Christ who organized the work of a messianic itinerant preacher into a body of coherent theology and spread it around the ancient world.

My dad... was in the military, a drill sergeant, when he was a preacher. You know how some Christians really get into church and become very radical? Imagine him as a radical and a drill sergeant. It was intense.

the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...

If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.