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It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action. -- Shoghi Effendi
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer. -- Jim Cymbala
If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model. -- Alexa Chung
I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh. -- Jimmy Carr
If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all. -- Martin Luther
Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir. -- Olivia Wilde
If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ. -- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching. -- Maya Angelou
I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in. -- Brendon Urie
A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future. -- Monica Johnson
When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do. -- Betty White
What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level. -- Marina Abramovic
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the forefathers of our music - Jelly Roll Morton - they're not preaching a separatist agenda. They're not taking their music and saying, "This is for me." -- Wynton Marsalis
Why do you not practice what you preach. -- St. Jerome
Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach? -- David Frum
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. -- George Whitefield
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. -- Richard Whately
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection. -- Billy Graham
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. -- Milan Kundera
I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you. -- America Ferrera
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach. -- Charles Spurgeon
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. -- Mark Twain
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
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon. -- William Feather
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. -- John Hines
My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader. -- Mr. T
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. -- Mojo Nixon
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings. -- Henry Martyn
I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice. -- Haniel Long
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There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing. -- J. C. Ryle
There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point. -- Mother Teresa
The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching. -- Walter Russell Bowie
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. -- George Dana Boardman Pepper
Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example. -- Mother Teresa
Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work. -- John Piper
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. -- Oscar Romero
If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox. -- E. W. Howe
The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner. -- Steven J. Law
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching. -- Martin Luther
Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense. -- SpaceGhostPurrp
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. -- Charles Spurgeon
Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society. -- Albert Mohler
People who say we are just preaching extreme grace must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is. -- D.R. Silva
Kindness is an open communication between hearts and not required to be learned by searching, teaching, or even preaching." -- Anuj Somany
I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College. -- Samuel Parris
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. -- Edith Hamilton
Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all. -- Leonard Ravenhill
I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God. -- Saint Basil
I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay. -- Martin Luther
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. -- Richard Baxter
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business. -- Toba Beta
For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. -- Richard Baxter
Muhammad was not yet establishing a new religion; he was calling for sweeping social reforms. He was not yet preaching monotheism; he was demanding economic justice. -- Reza Aslan
We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season. -- Matthew Henry
The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted. -- Tom Lehrer
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. -- John Hines
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
The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person ... Our task is ... the sharing of intense faith and experience. -- Halford Luccock
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates â??in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. -- Arthur Wallis
% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end. -- Cindy Sheehan
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon. -- John Calvin
A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all. -- James Boswell
As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows. -- John Newton
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall. -- James K. Baxter

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