(39 quotes found)
“You've got to put me on a different scale than the little black preacher sitting over there that's supposed to be just getting by because the people are suffering.”
Eddie Long
“In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available.”
Charlotte Observer
“Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He's been somewhat of an evangelist, a circuit-riding preacher. He's connected with the fan base.”
Mike Hamilton
“Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: / Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.”
Bible
“You'll get pie in the sky when you die (The Preacher and The Slave)”
Joe Hill
“There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.”
Victoria Jackson
“Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection”
Benjamin Franklin
“What will the preachers say? ... to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.”
Voltaire
“Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people. But I rejoice in great sin as my great solace.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
