Preacher Man Quotes

#1. I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

Sara Bareilles

#2. The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

Dusty Springfield

#3. His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was her.

She made his lungs work, his heart beat.

It was a goddamn disease is what it was.

V. Theia

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

Eliza Cook

#5. She had climbed into his turmoil and made herself at home, fixing him one brick at a time from the inside, powerless to stop her, she touched his pain and made it a little better each time.

V. Theia

#6. If she had to choose something, she'd say it was his build. Women were ingrained to go for the biggest Neanderthal in the village and they didn't come much bigger than Preacher. Disreputable Renegade Souls member. Perpetual Don Juan and swinger of his dick.

V. Theia

#7. Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?

V. Theia

#8. I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

Sam Childers

#9. No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. "You hath HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. He would have chucked her back into the pond otherwise. Bad fish, he didn't do them young. He was a fucking deviant, not a monster.

V. Theia

#11. He was just your average biker in blue denim jeans, thick-soled boots and a long-sleeved shirt underneath the leather jacket, nothing special she tried to reason with her clutching ovaries, little traitorous bastards.

V. Theia

#12. It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

S.D. Gordon

#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. She was imprinted on his soul, somehow it had happened, she'd just sneaked in there and made herself at home.

V. Theia

#15. The devil couldn't walk into a holy house and not expect a few flames.

V. Theia

#16. The preacher released a pent-up breath as he sagged in relief. "Thank God he's gone." His eyes narrowed at Alexander as he bit out, "Did you know that man had the nerve to lasso me while I was out in the woods?

Rose Wynters

#17. The beauty of the earth is but a breath, and man is but a shadow. What sympathy should a holy preacher have with either?

Charles Dickens

#18. The abuse of alcohol," Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, "is the one thing that puts Man above the animal.

Irwin Shaw

#19. And Preacher, the notorious thinks with his dick man, he was all the bad decisions a woman could ever make and a lifetime of regret all wrapped up in a six foot six rock hard package.

V. Theia

#20. Love was a bitch because it shackled you as hard as steel cuffs, leaving you gasping and hollow for any connection.

V. Theia

#21. Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.

Vance Havner

#22. However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Adam Clarke

#23. 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

#24. Some ties were hard to break, harder to severe, devastating to forget.

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#25. I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

#26. If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

Russell Johnson

#27. Never taunt the devil, because the devil will show you what he had, pitchfork in hand. The devil was such a showboater, and Preacher was even worse.

V. Theia

#28. Every man ought to take down some of the preacher's words and ideas, and go into some lane or by-way, and preach them again to others. We ought to have four ears - two for ourselves and two for other people.

D.L. Moody

#29. It is my faith that calls to you, Lord, the faith which you gave me and made to live in me through the merits of your Son, who became man, and through the ministry of your preacher.

Augustine Of Hippo

#30. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

Shel Silverstein

#31. The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.

Nancy B. Brewer

#32. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

J.C. Ryle

#33. She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her screams his payment for a man worthy of being in her fucking presence and not dying of overexposure to all that goodness.

V. Theia

#34. The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#35. Hawk's belly sunk hollow, black and empty, much like his chest that corroded desire into something nasty and wrong. Hawk paced until his knees creaked, glaring down at his phone like he could reach through and touch what he was forbidden to want.

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#36. Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown.

Russell Brand

#37. His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.

V. Theia

#38. The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#39. Her life was one giant clusterfuck of crazy, she was the epicenter, and no matter what she did to outrun her own personally designed hurricane there it was sweeping her off to Oz.

V. Theia

#40. A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends

Elisabeth Elliot

#41. Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist.

Terry Pratchett

#42. Hope was a weak rebellion not meant for the likes of him.

V. Theia

#43. He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.

V. Theia

#44. The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

James McBride

#45. As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

Henry David Thoreau

#46. His smile was sexual. Devious and tempting.

Not tonight, Satan.

V. Theia

#47. I only tasted you once, Ruby, and already I want more. It shouldn't have stopped at one kiss. You should invite me in and I'll show you how much you'll love me putting you on your knees.

V. Theia

#48. Don't you feel it, beautiful, when we touch, doesn't it shift something in you?

V. Theia

#49. No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

Shel Silverstein

#50. No man is saved by his imagination," quipped nineteenth-century Scottish preacher George Morrison. "It is a question if any man is saved without it."18

Sarah Arthur

#51. There was some biblical irony in that somewhere only Mary Magdalene would understand hitting above her weight grade.

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#52. He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a psychiatrist. The little bit of a thing was smarter than most.

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#53. The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

David Novak

#54. The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.
or Samuel Goldwyn
but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.

Marion Meade

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

V. Theia