Top 100 Quotes About A Preacher
#1. I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
John Piper
#2. Even if you are a preacher or a pastor, you will never be able to avoid questions related to money.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.
Gwen Ifill
#4. My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father
very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
William P. Young
#5. I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!
Charles R. Swindoll
#6. There's a preacher on the radio that says the Beatles are trying to hypnotize us and turn us all into Communists. I was listening to 'Hey, Jude' the other day and I had the urge to move to Cuba, so there might be something to it.
Chris Fabry
#7. 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
#8. I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize.
Mel Gibson
#9. If you picture other people as superior to yourself, you will realize that
mental image. Putting a preacher, a saint, a prophet, an expert or anybody up on a pedestal in your personal view, fundamentally accomplishes nothing but the effect of putting you in a pit.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#10. Lev had agreed to go with him because he knew the two tilled a need in each other. CyFi was like a preacher with no flock. He couldn't exist without an audience, and Lev needed someone who could fill his head with ideas, to replace the lifetime of ideas that had been taken from him.
Neal Shusterman
#11. A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
Vance Havner
#12. 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
#13. I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.
Andy Andrews
#14. By their garbage shall ye know them," Christie yells, like a preacher, a downy preacher. "I swear, by the ridge of tears and by the valour of my ancestors, I say unto you, Morag Gunn, lass, that by their bloody goddamn fucking garbage shall ye christly well know them.
Margaret Laurence
#17. To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
Timothy Radcliffe
#18. As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
John Ortberg
#19. I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.
Larry The Cable Guy
#20. I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne
Christopher Love
#22. As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.
Al Sharpton
#24. You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.
John Cullum
#25. It was well known among rivermen that having a preacher and a gray mare on board was an invitation to disaster.
George R R Martin
#26. 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
#27. I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.
Mark Martin
#28. 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
#29. The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner
#30. His crimped hair was subtly frosted, making him look like a preacher in some California church - the kind with acoustic guitars and headset microphones and not much use for the actual Bible.
John Wray
#31. Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God ... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.
Brother Lawrence
#32. I'm not following any of this, you know. Beecher who?"
"Henry Ward Beecher." Another slug from the bottle. "He's a preacher. Hey, that rhymes."
Well, that answers any questions about whether the alcohol is working.
Rysa Walker
#33. A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
Vance Havner
#34. I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.
Watchman Nee
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust
#38. If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
John Calvin
#39. Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for
that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.
Clay Aiken
#40. I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.
N. T. Wright
#41. Doggone thing could make a preacher cuss." I yanked out the muffin pan and slammed the oven shut.
Lois Lavrisa
#42. A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
Martin Luther
#43. Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
Bear Bryant
#44. My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
David Soul
#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. I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon
#47. A preacher may proclaim the grace of God with glorious orthodoxy, but if his life contradicts his doctrine he will disgrace the gospel of Christ (1 Tim 3:7).
Ryan Fullerton
#48. I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.
Anne Lamott
#49. In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.
Charles P. Pierce
#50. I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.
Duane Chapman
#51. Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher would call evil. Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people-that is my idea of evil.
Jonathan Kozol
#52. I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.
Theaster Gates
#53. I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.
Ruben Studdard
#54. You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style
Rebecca Solnit
#55. Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish.
Kim Ki-duk
#56. The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.
Dusty Springfield
#57. Teacher is not a great popular person. They teach what they know and make people better than them. Teacher must create a student better than him or her. Otherwise that person is not a teacher but a preacher. There are tons and thousands of preachers.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#58. Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.
Lenny Bruce
#59. My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus ... I rhyme.
Saul Williams
#60. When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.
Tim LaHaye
#61. I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.
Jimmy Swaggart
#62. If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
Vance Havner
#63. If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
Andrew Young
#64. Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.
Joyce Meyer
#66. who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven
Sebastian Barry
#67. I once heard a preacher say, "The reason we sometimes connect so quickly with a complete stranger is because the friendship is not of this life, but is the resumption of a friendship from another." I do not know if this is true, but sometimes it feels true.
Richard Paul Evans
#68. Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#69. If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.
Andy Stanley
#70. Harb was a ticking time bomb. It was like watching a preacher with Tourette syndrome. You knew the "Shit! Balls!" was coming at some point during the sermon, probably while he was slapping you on the forehead during a faith healing.
John Corwin
#71. I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
James Brown
#73. Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something. Deal
Daniel H. Wilson
#74. My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
Dorothy Malone
#75. I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!
Robert Duvall
#76. A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#77. My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
Tori Amos
#78. A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine ... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
Thomas Brooks
#79. I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
Billy Graham
#80. I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.
Max Lucado
#81. A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.
Martin Luther
#82. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
Martin Luther
#83. 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
#84. Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own words.
Erin Bowman
#85. I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.
Muhammad Ali
#86. You call me Red again, Mister, and you won't need one. What you'll need is a pine box and a preacher to read about you lyin' down green pastures.
Carolyn Brown
#87. As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
John Strachan
#88. My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon
#90. When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.
George Foreman
#91. It was the most earnest ambition I ever had ... Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.
Mark Twain
#92. A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#93. As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.
John Ortberg
#94. Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it ... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Alexander Payne
#96. I've changed my ways - from what roles I was picking till now. I don't do straight "faith" movies. It's one thing I always tell people. I'm not a preacher, I'm a sinner. I'm still learning and falling in a journey that God has me on and doing the best I can.
Drew Waters
#97. That kid of yours has more tells than a preacher in a whorehouse.
Norah Wilson
#98. If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.
Trevor Noah
#99. However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Adam Clarke
#100. A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.
Tullian Tchividjian
