Preach Quotes

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Fighting, Act

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

Humor, Live, Both

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Francis of Assisi

Words, Times, Necessary

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Joel Osteen

God, Father, Decision

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Francis of Assisi

Unless, Walking, Anywhere

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Wish, Ease

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
Joel Osteen

Church, Message, Broader

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

Spiritual, Nothing, May

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pride, Against, Sermon

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell

Love, Peace, God

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
Erykah Badu

Nothing, Ability, Audience

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'Connor

Truth, Else, Somebody

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace

May, Country, Against

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
Daniel Radcliffe

Respect, Atheist, Atheism

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West

Done, Whatever, Cats

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Milan Kundera

Truth, Mean, Means

A man can preach no better than he prays.
Charles Stanley

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Lips, Sermon

Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome

Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley

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

Best, Sermon, Minister

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.
Xenophon

Best, May, Small

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville

Truth, Him, Living

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
Roald Dahl

God, Men, Another

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Bruce Jenner

Kids, Exercise, Practice

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.
Eddie Murray

Love, Work, Home

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.
Walter Lippmann

Cannot, Rather, Teach

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.
Alexander Haig

Life, Others, Rather

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
Saint Stephen

Cannot, Both, Financial

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