Quotes with preaching

  • When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
  • 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.

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  • Knute Rockne One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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  • George E. Mueller A young girl was asked: ''Whose preaching brought you to Christ?'' ''It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing,'' he replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mother Teresa One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Hosea Ballou Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Agnes E. Meyer The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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  • Sydney Smith The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Mother Teresa 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
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Augustus William Hare What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Billy Porter When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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