Quotes About Preaching Religion

#1. 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

#2. My greatest fear is that the spirit of religion is lurking in so many churches today. Instead of men and women of God preaching about and applying Kingdom principles to everyday living, they have given the spirit of religion the power to cloud the path of others.

Myles Munroe

#3. I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.

Santosh Kalwar

#4. Only the holy man needs preaching.

Chris Galford

#5. He hadn't altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

Rebecca Goldstein

#6. Irony is only skin deep.

Marty Rubin

#7. Morality is totally God's standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate.

Simon Critchley

#12. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Samuel Johnson

#13. I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in.

Brendon Urie

#14. Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice.

Reza Aslan

#15. It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

Frei Betto

#16. 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

#17. You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

Ashly Lorenzana

#18. These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word ... Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?

Seth Grahame-Smith

#19. In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

Hillary Clinton

#20. It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Patrick Henry

#21. I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.

Cathy Guisewite

#22. For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

Pauline Kael

#23. You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.

Elijah

#24. For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.

C.S. Lewis

#25. What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.

Marina Abramovic

#26. I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

Leonard Ravenhill

#28. I'm not your Dolly anymore

M.K. Williams

#29. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. She sighed and set the letter aside. Hoping for

Julie Klassen

#31. Theosophy was both a philosophy and a religion, preaching the doctrine of reincarnation as well as spiritual evolution.

George Pendle

#32. Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Thomas Paine

#33. We left you there, lonely,
Beauty your power,
Wisdom your watchman,
To hold the clay tower.
from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree

Vachel Lindsay

#34. If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

Laura Bradford

#35. Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

John Piper

#36. 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

#37. People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

D.R. Silva

#38. If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Richard Baxter

#39. It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.

Horatius Bonar