The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting.
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.
The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.
The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.
Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat. , Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons. ]
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.
Preaching is truth through personality.
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
