A Quote by Thomas Brooks

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

Thomas Brooks

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Best Breaks Ear Heart Preacher

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Thomas Brooks
British - Politician
July 7, 1880 - February 15, 1958

A child's giggle tickles me deeply, and it breaks my heart when that begins to disappear. So I do what I can to create opportunities for children to continue to laugh and rediscover their joy.

Goldie Hawn

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

Vance Havner

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

Libba Bray

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

Emily Dickinson

The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.

Charles Spurgeon

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?

Jonathan Carroll

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

Bruce Springsteen

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

Stanley Kunitz

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Maria Callas

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

Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United - on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji's best role.

Jurgen Klopp

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

I'm standing under a sign that says, 'Budweiser is king of beers,' and everybody's got their beers here today," I told them. "But I'm here to talk about the King of Kings. I know I might look like a preacher, but I'm not. Here's how you can tell whether someone's a preacher or not: if he gets up and says some words and passes a hat for you to put money in, that's a preacher. This is free. This if free of charge, which proves I'm not a preacher.