Christian Preacher Quotes

#1. Faith is to rest, not in the best of God's servants, but in His unchanging Word.

Henry Allen Ironside

#2. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Saint Basil

#3. Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

Joel Beeke

#4. During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.

Hugh Hardy

#5. The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

Vance Havner

#6. If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

Johnny Hunt

#7. Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

Lanford Wilson

#8. A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

Vance Havner

#9. Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.

Toni Collette

#10. P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs.
P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.

Louise Rennison

#11. Look around you! This is where the path of hatred has brought us.

Pocahontas

#12. The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Julia Ward Howe

#13. Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Rita Dove

#14. He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

Thomas Brooks

#15. Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Donald Tusk

#16. He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't ... that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.

Matt Chandler

#17. The sacred preacher woman; Lailah Gifty Akita.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

Duane Chapman

#19. So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

Saint Francis De Sales

#21. A book is never, ever finished. You simply get to a point where you and your editor are reasonably happy with how it is and you go with that. Left to our own devices, a writer would endlessly fiddle with a book, changing little thing after little thing.

Kimberly Pauley

#22. My passionate adventure is to fulfill my calling; revered, preacher woman.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously better.

Sean Carroll

#24. Realize that you may have misinterpreted the situation completely, that your anger about this person breaking your rules may be based on the fact that they don't know what's most important to you (even though you believe they should).

Anthony Robbins

#25. I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

Andy Andrews

#26. The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.

Vance Havner

#27. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.

Christian Michael

#28. The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.

Gus Hall

#29. Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

Andy Stanley