Quotes with preach

  • The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bob Rae many on the right confuse the is of globalization with the ought of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. One, The Rabbis Three Questions, p. 7
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Betty Wright All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Dorothy Thompson Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
    Dorothy Thompson
     
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  • Antonio Vieira Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
    Antonio Vieira
     
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Billy Graham Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Mark Twain Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Richard Baxter I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
    Richard Baxter
     
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Al Sharpton I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • George Orwell It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
    Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
    Mrs. Humphrey Ward
     
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  • Anne Hutchinson One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Alexander Haig Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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