Best 146 quotes in «preaching quotes» category

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

I think "creative preaching" is redundant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

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

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.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

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

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

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

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

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.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

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

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

ABSENCE, n. That which "makes the heart grow fonder" — of absence. Absence of mind is the cerebral condition essential to success in popular preaching. It is sometimes termed lack of sense.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

All that you need to WIN OTHERS for LORD (Fulfilling The Great Commission) is embedded in whatever Gifts, Talents, Capabilities, Callings, Assignments, Dreams, Visions, Missions and Aspirations you have. Just use them.

A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and they pay greatly; Plant zero in them and they pay in negatives!

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience.

A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.

As the people came to a desert place to hear John the Baptist proclaim, “Thus saith the Lord,” so [man] in his confusions, frustrations, and bewilderment will come to hear the minister who preaches with authority.

Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.

A preacher shouldn't preach just to make you feel good. Then it's about the money not about the teach. He should preach the truth because the truth shall set you free.

As there are two vocations whereunto it hath pleased God to call every one; one general, by virtue whereof certain common duties which are to be performed of all men, are required, [as knowledge, faith, obedience, repentance, love, mercy, justice, truth, etc.] the other particular, by virtue whereof certain peculiar duties are required of several persons, according to those distinct places wherein the Divine Providence hath set them in Commonwealth, Church or family; so ought God's Ministers to be careful in instructing God's people in both kinds of duties; both those which concern their general, and those also which concern their particular calling.

Building anticipation into one's preaching simply calls for one basic understanding of the task of the pulpit: the goal is not to get something said but to get something heard.

Effective preaching must be biblical preaching, whether it is the exposition of a single word in the Bible, a text, or a chapter. The Word is what the Spirit uses.

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses and gardenias and apple blossoms: 'Flowers and fruits, and other winged things.' These fairies try to be funny, and fail; or they try to preach, and succeed.

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.