Best 146 quotes in «preaching quotes» category

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light". God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us.

We cause havoc to our society when we only preach miracles.

When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or a sign for the dubious. God does not offer to cover your backside.

We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” [Revelation 3:8 KJV].

We see that the law was not reveal to us to put a notion into our heads that we could become righteous by it, but to teach us that we are completely unable to fulfill the law. Then we will know what a sweet message-what a glorious doctrine-the gospel is and move receive it with exuberant joy.

When a poor soul is somewhat awakened by the terrors of the Lord, then the poor creature, being born under the covenant of works, flies directly to a covenant of works again. And as Adam and Eve hid themselves… and sewed fig leaves… so the poor sinner, when awakened, flies to his duties and to his performances, to hide himself from God, and goes to patch up a righteousness of his own. Says he, I will be mighty good now–I will reform–I will do all I can; and then certainly Jesus Christ will have mercy on me.

When I preach—no matter where it is in the world—I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity.

When we preach gospel of miracles instead of gospel of the kingdom, we are subverting gospel of the kingdom.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.

When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.

When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not on how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief effect is accusation the intimation of a less-than.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there'll be no butter in hell!

After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which evil deeds are punished? For you, a philosopher and ethicist, an act of revenge is bad, disgraceful, unethical and illegal. But I ask: where is the punishment for evil? Who has it and grants access? The Gods, in which you do not believe? The great demiurge-creator, which you decided to replace the gods with? Or maybe the law? [...] I know what evil is afraid of. Not your ethics, Vysogota, not your preaching or moral treaties on the life of dignity. Evil is afraid of pain, mutilation, suffering and at the end of the day, death! The dog howls when it is badly wounded! Writhing on the ground and growls, watching the blood flow from its veins and arteries, seeing the bone that sticks out from a stump, watching its guts escape its open belly, feeling the cold as death is about to take them. Then and only then will evil begin to beg, 'Have mercy! I regret my sins! I'll be good, I swear! Just save me, do not let me waste away!'. Yes, hermit. That is the way to fight evil! When evil wants to harm you, inflict pain - anticipate them, it's best if evil does not expect it. But if you fail to prevent evil, if you have been hurt by evil, then avenge him! It is best when they have already forgotten, when they feel safe. Then pay them in double. In triple. An eye for an eye? No! Both eyes for an eye! A tooth for a tooth? No! All their teeth for a tooth! Repay evil! Make it wail in pain, howling until their eyes pop from their sockets. And then, you can look under your feet and boldly declare that what is there cannot endanger anyone, cannot hurt anyone. How can someone be a danger, when they have no eyes? How can someone hurt when they have no hands? They can only wait until they bleed to death.

...you must be constant in the use of means and lay hold on every opportunity of enjoying the gospel. This our Lord commends in Mary, calling her attendance on the word preached a choosing the "good part" (Luke 10:42). There, you will taste the crystal streams and view the golden minds of sound doctrine and wells of salvation. This is the place of spiritual wonders where the dead are raised, the lepers cleansed, the eyes of the blind opened, and the devils ejected. Gospel ordinances are the golden galleries where the King of Glory walks, the bed where immortal souls are begotten unto God, and in which the broken hearts do travail till Christ is formed in them [Gal. 4:19]. Through these golden pipes, the water of life is poured out on thirsty, panting souls for the cheering of their spirits. Here is the doctrine preached and words where by you must be saved (Acts 10). Here, Christ's mother found Him, it being the place where the Bridegroom and the bride meet and solace themselves together.

You need to do more than practice as only when you do will you have the right to preach it

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

I think "creative preaching" is redundant.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.