Top 403 Preacher Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.
To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.
Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.
The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'
Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?
I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.
I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.
Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.
The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
For me the motley and the bauble, yea,
Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!
A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons
If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.
Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.
Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher... but..."
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
Working at the White House is an honor for any preacher's kid from Magnolia, but the issue is jobs.
I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.
The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.
Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.
My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.
Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.
Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher
Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
