Top 88 Quotes About Preaches
#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. That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.
Frances Stark
#3. The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.
Malcolm X
#4. Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack, ahead of everyone.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. My manager always preaches golf comes first.
Bubba Watson
#6. I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
Indro Montanelli
#7. So, too, faith comes only through the word of God, the Gospel, that preaches Christ: how he is both Son of God and man, how he died and rose for our sake. Paul says all this in chapters
Martin Luther
#8. Everything teaches, everyone preaches, all have a gospel to sell! Better the one who is honest and open in declaring an agenda than the one who fools you into believing they are only spinning a pretty fancy for beauty's sake.
Karen Lord
#9. Hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
Horace Greeley
#11. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. As the people came to a desert place to hear John the Baptist proclaim, "Thus saith the Lord," so [man] in his confusions, frustrations, and bewilderment will come to hear the minister who preaches with authority.
Billy Graham
#13. "He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."
Miguel De Cervantes
#14. A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#15. Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
Georg Brandes
#16. The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music.
Andrae Crouch
#17. Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
J.I. Packer
#18. 'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
Ida Lupino
#19. But I know this, that we can do better without the voice that preaches than without the heart that prays.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.
Mark Driscoll
#22. The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
Margaret Mead
#23. The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#24. One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
#25. Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.
Karl Hess
#26. Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
Charles J. Chaput
#27. You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther
#28. 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
#29. We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
Paul Keating
#30. One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
#31. The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.
M. R. DeHaan
#32. The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
Confucius
#33. The New Testament preaches a Christ who was dead and is alive, not a Christ who was alive and is dead.
James Denney
#34. Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#35. Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
Kerry Thornley
#36. The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.
Naomi Klein
#37. It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#38. The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
Stephen King
#39. God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!
Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!
what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.
Matthew Arnold
#40. Well, that's not what the Bible preaches. It says if you know the truth, it'll set you free.
Sue Monk Kidd
#41. A banker can be as called and as pleasing to God as Billy Graham may be when he preaches. A brewer can serve as valuable a role in the kingdom of God as a missionary, a priest, or a pope. This is the truth of Christianity and this, too, is a core truth of the Guinness story.
Stephen Mansfield
#42. No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.
John Stott
#43. A real Christian preaches with deeds and discussion, not accusations and condemnations. You should never listen to the person shouting the loudest in anything." ~ K.D. Worth, The Grim Life
K.D. Worth
#44. I recommend getting yourself out from under any ministry that PREACHES LAW or a MIXTURE OF LAW AND GRACE, and instead listening to or reading anything you can find to reinforce the GRACE MESSAGE.
Paul Silway
#45. The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.
Rudyard Kipling
#46. If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.
Muso Soseki
#47. A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#48. The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.
Martin Luther
#49. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.
Mark Fuhrman
#50. Someone who does not practice what he preaches expresses only hypocrisy.
D.S. Mixell
#51. I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.
Erich Ludendorff
#52. relegated to a tireless search to find a church that preaches the Bible at all, as today's pulpits more commonly stream self-help infomercials which refuse to mention, let alone offer remedy for man's greatest issue: sin and man's need for redemption.
Jeff Kluttz
#53. A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
Confucius
#54. A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.
John F. Kennedy
#55. Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message. Louis Farrakhan preaches hate.
George W. Bush
#57. Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
Oscar Wilde
#58. Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
#59. Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.
Michael Hanlon
#60. Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#61. It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
Owen Feltham
#62. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H.L. Mencken
#64. 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
#65. The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.
Wafa Sultan
#66. The United States, despite an active ideology that preaches equality, in fact has the most unequal distribution of wealth of any industrialized nation (Philips, 1988). The top one percent of the population controls over 70 percent of the wealth, and the top 5 percent control over 90 percent.9
Dhati Lewis
#67. They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.
Malcolm X
#68. Your . . . sermon lasts but an hour or two - your life preaches all the week.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#69. And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#72. He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
John Ray
#73. I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.
John Gresham Machen
#74. I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.
Annie Besant
#75. America preaches integration and practices segregation.
Malcolm X
#76. He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier
Sam Manekshaw
#77. If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time ...
J.I. Packer
#78. Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.
Billy Graham
#80. Paul preaches without shame in his delivery skills because he trusts that the Spirit of God will use the Word the apostle proclaims to shatter the hardness of the human heart in ways no stage technique or philosophical construct can rival.
Bryan Chapell
#81. There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.
Jeremy Seabrook
#82. We may learn things from one who preaches, or we may find their pontificating a waste of time - often enough, a hypocritical waste of time. What child ever preaches? Yet time spent open-heartedly with a child is never wasted.
Quentin S. Crisp
#83. The whole creation of God preaches, as Jonathan Edwards
Nancy Pearcey
#84. Christ preaches only servitude and dependence ... True Christians are made to be slaves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#85. What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?
George Frideric Handel
#86. Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
Charles Caleb Colton
#87. Culture preaches monogamy while Nature repeats it - over and over again.
Anthony Marais
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