A Quote by Charles Stanley

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Charles Stanley

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Charles Stanley
American - Priest
Born: September 25, 1932

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Theodore Parker

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.

George Whitefield

... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.

Lorenzo Scupoli

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Ivan Turgenev

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

Haniel Long

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

John Wesley

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

Charles Spurgeon

A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.

Preston Sturges

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.

Charles Spurgeon

Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.