Best 146 quotes in «preaching quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think "creative preaching" is redundant.

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

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

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

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 not a profession, it’s a passion

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

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

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

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

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.

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!

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.

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become

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.

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

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

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.

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