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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Written by John Burroughs
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Written by Dr. Seuss
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Written by Unknown
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Written by Rebecca West
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
Written by Thomas Griffith
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
Written by Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
Written by John Hines
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Written by Edmund Burke
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Written by Louis Nizer
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.
Written by Alexander Haig
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Written by Roy L. Smith
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
Written by Faith Baldwin
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
Written by Elayne Boosler
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Written by Oliver Goldsmith
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Written by Mahatma Gandhi
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Written by Christopher Morley
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Written by Xenophon
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Written by Helen Rowland
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.
Written by John Ruskin
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Written by Hosea Ballou
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Written by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
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.
Written by Walter Lippmann
When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Written by Martin Luther
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Written by Martin Luther
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Written by Francis of Assisi
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Written by Sallust
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Written by Jonathan Swift
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.
Written by Sydney Smith
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Written by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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