Preaching Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler — and less trouble.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.
Arnold Lunn (1888-1974) British author
Philosophy rests on the proposition that whatever is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is wrong.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)American author
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
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 (b. 1889) American businessman
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) Anglo-American essayist
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American novelist, journalist
The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbours no harm.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American president
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) English Nonconformist cleric
To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
John Schica (1544-1654) English jurist, statesman
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
James Hogg (1770-1835) Scottish poet
An advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, the latter cannot well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer
Not one clergyman in ten uses his own voice — he uses only an imitation.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author
The Methodists love your big Sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
The world runs after pulpit orators. They please the ear, and do not disturb the conscience. They move the emotions but do not change the will.
Cardinal Henry Manning (1808-1892) English theologian
