Quotes about Preach

George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends, wrote, "People must be led out of captivity up to God. Be patterns, be examples that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.

We live among the wealthiest people of the world (top 2 percent), a tough mission field. We are preaching a gospel that declares that it's easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the kingdom. But look on the bright side. After we preach the crowds down, we will not need such expensive buildings.

You don't have to worry about the intellectuals, Wesley. Just put a few of them on the government payroll and send them out to preach precisely the sort of thing Mr. Kinnan mentioned: that the blame rests on the victims. Give them moderately comfortable salaries and extremely loud titles—and they'll forget their copyrights and do a better job for you than whole squads of enforcement officers.

How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

The congregation is the pastor's place for developing vocational holiness. It goes without saying that it is the place of ministry: we preach the word and administer the sacraments, we give pastoral care and administer the community life, we teach and we give spiritual direction. But it is also the place in which we develop virtue, learn to love, advance in hope — become what we preach.

For if a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to teach or preach convincingly that the news is good.

I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus.

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

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

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do.

My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.