Preach Quotes
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The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
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More Preach Quotes
It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.
— John Flavel, p. 476. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"
jerome— Letter 52 (Sourced)
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques... Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.
antoni tàpies— p. 30 (In: Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003, 2004)
You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself.
james hudson taylor— (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 258.)
We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.
buddy wakefield— Introduction (Some They Can't Contain)
...it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
nikolai vasilievich gogol— A letter to Zhukovsky, January 1848, quoted in Sculpting in Time (p49) by Andrei Tarkovsky
The idea of preaching the gospel to all nations alike, regardless of nationality, of internal divisions as to rank and color, complexion and religion, constituted the beginning of a new era in history. You cannot preach the gospel in its purity over the world, without proclaiming the doctrine of civil and religious liberty, without overthrowing the barriers reared between nations and clans and classes of men, without ultimately undermining the thrones of despots, and breaking off the shackles of slavery, without making men everywhere free.
— Albert Barnes, p. 289. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
— 2 Timothy 4:2, as quoted in
preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
Richard Whately— 1854 Apophthegms.
Mr Mercaptan went on to preach a brilliant sermon on that melancholy sexual perversion known as continence.
— 1923 Antic Hay, ch.18.
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
jane welsh carlyle— Letter to John Sterling (5 August 1845)
If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view.
nick cave— "Interview with Nick Cave", musicOMH (March, 2008)
It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger.
oliver cowdery— Valedictory, dated February 1837, Messenger and advocate 3, p. 548. (August 1837)
— Cowdery’s 1837 editorial farewell in the Kirtland Church newspaper.
I do not presume to preach to anyone; I do not consider myself a preacher or a teacher. Were it not that I am responsible for the book, I would prefer that my personality be not named as its author. The greatness of the subjects about which I offer information, relieves and frees me from self-conceit and forbids the plea of modesty.
harold w. percival— Author's Forward, p. xxi
" many on the right confuse the "is" of globalization with the "ought" of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed.
bob rae— Chapter One, The Rabbi's Three Questions, p. 7
When Jesus sent forth his servants formerly he sent them to preach this Gospel. When the Father and the Son and Moroni and others came to Joseph Smith, he had a priesthood conferred upon him which he conferred upon others for the purpose of manifesting the laws of life, the Gospel of the Son of God, by direct authority, that light and truth might be spread forth among all nations.
john taylor— Journal of Discourses 20:257 (March 2, 1879)
— John Taylor’s comments on the appearance of God the Father, Jesus Christ and Moroni to Joseph Smith, Jr.
I returned to the Holiday Inn — where they have a swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms — to consider the paradox of a nation that has given so much to those who preach the glories of rugged individualism from the security of countless corporate sinecures, and so little to that diminishing band of yesterday's refugees who still practice it, day by day, in a tough, rootless and sometimes witless style that most of us have long since been weaned away from.
hunter s. thompson— Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979)
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world, but under a cover, until the shaft reaches from the grave to the heavens, whenHe lifts the curtain, and displays the figure of a man on a throne, for the worship of the universe; and clothing His church with His own power, He authorizes it to baptize and to preach remission of sins in His own name.
edward thomson— P. 77. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 218.
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.
russell baker— "The Unfairness of It All" (p.193)
Teachers … preach “the superiority of the intelligence”; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.
julien benda— p. 151 (Treason of the Intellectuals (1927))
It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.
theodore roosevelt— Speech to Holy Name Society, Oyster Bay, August 16, 1903
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
bertrand russell— Ch. 8: Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness.
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
— Henry A. Wallace, in Blue Butterflies: Miracles, Mercies, Mysteries and Lessons Learned, p.1
And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
william cowper— William Cowper, Table Talk (1782), line 173.
A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge . I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.
— Dave Matthews, in Alan Light Dave Matthews: Conscience and Craft, msn Entertainment News
Ay, rail at gaming 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
edward moore— Edward Moore, The Gamester, Act IV, scene 1.
preach the Gospel with your life without compromise!
— The Little Mandate
