Good Preacher Quotes

#1. I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

Muddy Waters

#2. Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher ... but ... "

Johnny Hunt

#3. The effects of preaching are a miracle." A good preacher converts persons; he casts out devils from the hearts of those whom he changes from sin to holiness. This he could not do without power from God. But what seems good, is often not good.

J.C. Ryle

#4. Want me to give him a little advice before he gets his nose broken?" "No," Jack said flatly. Jack was thinking that breaking his nose was going to feel very good. If Nick put one hand on her, he was going to come apart. "Good," Preacher said. "I haven't been to a good bar fight in years." In

Robyn Carr

#5. My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

Jayne Meadows

#6. I'm all for Spencer. He's sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don't believe that social action is the main business of the Church."
"Then what is?"
"Salvation.

Catherine Marshall

#7. A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

John Newton

#8. Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Eliza Cook

#9. He wasn't good. He was a goddamn cruel bastard.

V. Theia

#10. How was the sermon?" "Was it a good service?" Same blank stare from the ancestors. In those days, churches didn't have to be rockin' it, nobody expected the preacher to hit it out of the park, and the service was, well, a service.

Michael S. Horton

#11. Put your seed in the soil, no matter the dormancy period, with faith, there shall surely be germination

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. Good," Pop slapped his thighs and pushed to his feet. "Number one job of a preacher. Know the Word. Live it, pray it, sing it.

Rachel Hauck

#13. The biblical preacher talks about the poor man's wisdom that saved a city but he was immediately forgotten. A poverty of ideas, contributions, uniqueness or influence, will overshadow the visibility of good potential. Keep those ideas flowing and you will not be forgotten.

Archibald Marwizi

#14. Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
God takes a text, and preaches patience.

George Herbert

#15. This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

Frederick Lenz

#16. For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

Robert Browning

#17. 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

#18. My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.

Jackie Collins

#19. I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

N. T. Wright

#20. I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

Salman Rushdie

#21. How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

John Knox

#22. Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

Francois Rabelais

#23. Preaching vs Teaching:
The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

T.F. Hodge

#24. The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

Aeschylus

#26. Trust me, never mock a romance book," said Mal with all the zest of a manic street preacher. "You have no idea the amount of good they can do for you between the sheets and on the streets. If you love you girl? Buy her books.

Kylie Scott

#27. There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere.

Eric Schmidt

#28. In other words a preacher who seems to be detached from the Truth, and who is just saying a number of things which may be very good and true and excellent in themselves, is not a preacher at all.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#29. The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

J.C. Ryle

#30. The preacher laughed softly. "You know," he said, "it's a nice thing not bein' a preacher no more. Nobody use' ta tell stories when I was there, or if they did I couldn' laugh. An' I couldn' cuss. Now I cuss all I want, any time I want, an' it does a fella good to cuss if he wants to.

John Steinbeck

#31. The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

Bill Gates

#32. I lived in a project and ... didn't have a good education. But ... I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

Evander Holyfield

#33. Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off
especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#34. Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.

Epictetus

#35. I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

Neil Young

#36. Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior.

Charles Grandison Finney

#37. I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

Jessica Hahn