(39 quotes found)
“What will the preachers say?”
Voltaire
“The White House is aware of the electoral importance of preachers like Robertson who command millions of dollars and millions of voters.”
Riordan Roett
“The word was out that this was a dynamic young preacher.”
Valerie Cunningham
“Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The painful Preacher, like a candle bright, Consumes himself in giving others Light.”
“He was a preacher, too... and never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too.”
Mark Twain
“The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down, To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting king.”
Charles Sprague
“Your religion is like a cock. Don't whip it out in public and don't shove it down my throat!”
Marie Muhammad
“There is no opinion so absurd that a preacher would not express it”
Bernie Katz