Quotes with preacher

  • No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
  • You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

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  • Anna Garlin Spencer A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Adam Clarke However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Andrew Young If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Jean Paul No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Benjamin Watson Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Vance Havner The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Margaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Billy Graham The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Sallust Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Eliza Cook Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Helen Rowland Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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