Top 100 Quotes About Preaching
#1. We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.
Ethel Percy Andrus
#2. I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audience in any situation over which we had control. This was long before the Supreme Court decision of 1954. I felt this was the Christian position and I could do no other.
Billy Graham
#3. The preaching of the Word to a prayerless congregation falls at the very feet of the preacher.
E. M. Bounds
#4. Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.
Jimmy Carter
#5. 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
#6. If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Roland Allen
#8. Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
Trevor Noah
#9. Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
Olivia Wilde
#10. You are singing to the preacher," said J.Lo.
"Preaching to the choir," I corrected him.
"Yes. This thing.
Adam Rex
#11. Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#12. A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.
Douglas Wilson
#13. Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.
William Henry Willimon
#14. In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.
John E. Hines
#15. All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.
Alphonsus Liguori
#16. The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.
Oswald Chambers
#17. Preaching is asking people to do what you yourself failed to do and expect they fail so that you can come back and preach at them the next day
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#18. I have been preaching repentance for seventy years; there are thousands of ministers of the Gospel all over this planet preaching repentance this very hour ... and most of the time the world has laughed in the face of the King of kings.
Billy Graham
#19. Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.
Alistair Begg
#20. He kisses her and wants to beg her and the others to never give up on him. Ever. But he gets a feeling that he would be preaching to the converted
Melina Marchetta
#22. The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Sydney Smith
#23. By the word letter Paul means preaching which is external and does not reach the heart; by Spirit he means teaching which is alive, which works mightily in the souls of men by the grace of the Spirit. Letter,
John Calvin
#24. You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.
Frances Hesselbein
#25. Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.
Robert McKee
#26. The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
Jonathan Swift
#27. Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#28. Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#29. These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.
Alfred Korzybski
#30. Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II
#31. When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
Alexander Whyte
#33. If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God's Word into our sermons.8 His gospel preaching was grounded
Steven J. Lawson
#34. I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
Tullian Tchividjian
#35. He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
Mark Twain
#36. Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily newsects and last of all, which of all other I should never have forseen or once suspected, he hath raised up a sect such as teach ... that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
Martin Luther
#37. There have been revivals without much preaching; there have been revivals with absolutely no organization; but there has never been a mighty revival without mighty praying.
Various
#38. John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#39. A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.
Diane Dreher
#40. Expository preaching is the best method for displaying and conveying your conviction that the whole Bible is true.
Timothy Keller
#41. The enemy of the human race ... invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.
Pope John Paul II
#42. The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square.
Umberto Eco
#43. Luther's doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus needing the hammer of the law to terrify and break the sinful conscience.
Carl R. Trueman
#44. The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#45. We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.
Saint Basil
#46. God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.
Steven J. Lawson
#47. I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
Kacey Musgraves
#48. Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.
Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.
Toba Beta
#49. The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#50. Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.
Charles M. Schulz
#51. I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.
Max Lucado
#52. Anything we are preaching to people is what they become
Sunday Adelaja
#53. The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
Joel R. Beeke
#54. The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.
Jim Cymbala
#55. Joy cannot be held at heel: it must be let go. Joy is a pilgrim virtue. It is a gift that walks, walks on the path of life, that walks with Jesus: preaching, proclaiming Jesus, proclaiming joy, lengthens and widens that path.
Pope Francis
#56. Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Mary Douglas
#57. The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.
Michel Faber
#58. I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.
Samuel Parris
#59. One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.
Hillary Clinton
#60. Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.
George O. Wood
#61. Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.
Bill Vaughan
#63. The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.
Martyn
#64. The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
Charles Caleb Colton
#65. Expository preaching means you can't completely predetermine what your people will be hearing over the next few weeks or months. As the texts are opened, questions and answers emerge that no one might have seen coming.
Timothy Keller
#66. If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
Abraham Lincoln
#67. Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.
John Piper
#68. I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.
Jerome K. Jerome
#69. One of my friends has a saying: "If it's not true in Darfur, it's not true here." He means if we can't preach it in every context, for every person, it's not really for everyone, and so then we should probably ask whether or not what we are preaching is actually the gospel.
Sarah Bessey
#70. For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government ... costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#71. Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.
Martin Luther
#72. The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me."
Wynton Marsalis
#73. If we preach a "gospel" with no call to repentance, we are preaching something other than the apostolic gospel.
Kevin DeYoung
#74. When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.
Billy Graham
#76. It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.
Pope Francis
#77. Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.
John Berridge
#78. Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.
Boomer Esiason
#79. All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.
Charles Spurgeon
#80. The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.
Alistair Begg
#81. There is no hint here that preaching is thought of primarily as self-expression
of subjective experience or feeling-disclosure or autobiography or 'telling one's story' so as to neglect Scripture."275 It is the Word that is to be preached.
Ben Witherington III
#82. Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou
#83. Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.
Richard Armour
#84. Preaching vs Teaching:
The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.
T.F. Hodge
#85. The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.
Adolf Hitler
#86. Your praying and your preaching should be of the same length. You don't want to find yourself limping, with one leg shorter than the other. God works as a result of prayer and faithfulness, not technique and cleverness. But
N. T. Wright
#87. The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#88. If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.
Martin Luther
#89. you cannot "save" a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church - scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.
Ed Stetzer
#90. On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
Eric Burdon
#91. We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#92. No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
Horace Greeley
#93. Theosophy was both a philosophy and a religion, preaching the doctrine of reincarnation as well as spiritual evolution.
George Pendle
#94. One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.
Rodney Howard-Browne
#95. Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth?
Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth?
Toba Beta
#96. Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.
Jack Hyles
#97. If there's one thing I love, its people who wear their failures on their sleeve. And go on to teach the unspoken/spoken gospel of what not to do. And who still maintain that it CAN be done, and aren't going around preaching defeat to those who are still eager to try.
Njabulo P. Vilakazi
#98. You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.
David Yonggi Cho
#99. Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!"
John Hagee
#100. It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.
Leonard Ravenhill
