A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
As a preacher I just feel like I have to be honest; I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. I think that's why I've been able to reach some people who don't feel comfortable in churches. I do make mistakes and I can be goofy and quirky sometimes. I'm not the world's greatest speaker. I don't try to hide that.
So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . . ” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal. ” “What’s that?” “The truth.
I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.
I still love church. My favorite church service is T. D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.
No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!
You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him. '
How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.
I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are. And let me repeat this: the malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else; it is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, and evangelist of our day. That is where the malady is to be found.
The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant.
Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.