Preaching Quotes

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. (Edmund Burke)
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. View quote
Sydney Smith
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. View quote
Donald Cargill
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine. View quote
Girolamo Savonarola
I may be preaching to the choir, but the choir needs a good song. View quote
Michael Moore
Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well but you are surprised to find it done at all. (Samuel Johnson)
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? View quote
Mary Douglas
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation. View quote
Nur Muhammad Taraki
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience. View quote
Tim McGraw
I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren. View quote
John Newton
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. View quote
E. B. White
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish. View quote
John Muir
Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others. (Ali)
Rush Limbaugh, who has made a career preaching that anybody who does drugs has got to go right to jail -- do not pass go, no questions asked, right to jail -- gets caught doing thirty oxycontin a day. Thirty oxycontin?! Do you have any idea how high that is?! I don't, and I've been pretty high! View quote
Bill Maher
Jean Jacques Rousseau," he answered, "is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends. View quote
Stendhal
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and to madness. View quote
Ford Madox Ford
This cause will roll on in majesty and power to fill the earth. Doors now closed to the preaching of the gospel will be opened. The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.”. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley