(214 quotes found)
“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.”
John E. Hines
“I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach”
French Proverb
“The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.'”
Billy Graham
“Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.”
Confucius
“Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress”
Wendell Phillips
“The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.”
William Cobbett
