P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.”
“Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.”
“Preach always. Use words if necessary.”
“Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.”
Source: Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
“Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon.”
“Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 75
“Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.”
Source: The Heart of John Wesley's Journal
“Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .”
Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays
“Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.”
Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays
“Preach it, I say preach it.”
“Preach My Gospel missionaries act in faith and are guided by the Spirit to help investigators learn truth. Please always remember Him, be worthy to represent Him, treasure up His word, allow the Holy Ghost to witness all truth, and observe, listen, and discern as you testify of Jesus Christ to honest seekers of truth.”
“Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.”
Source: The Two Wesleys: On John and Charles Wesley
“Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.”
“Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.”
Source: American Literary Centers: From 'Literature and Life'
“Preach the gospel to all the world! It is [as] free to all mankind as the air we breathe.”
“Preach the gospel to yourself every day.”
Source: Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey
“Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.”
“Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!”
Source: Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections
“Preach the Gospel with your life.”
“Preach the gospel, die and be forgotten.”
“Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”
“preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.”
“Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.”
Source: The Reformed Pastor by R. Baxter
“Preach! Write! Act! Do any thing, save to lie down and die!”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
“Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.”
“Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the [Frankenweenie] junket and everyone started asking about it again. Preacher could be filmed, at any point. It's sort of ready to go, but it's lacking a green light. At some point, that green light might come, but it may never come. So, I have to allow for the fact that I've done everything I can, and whatever happens with it, happens with it.”
“Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.”
“Preacher pulled her gun to her lap, the trigger aimed toward the stranger. . . . He stared at her like he was ready to dial 911, until he saw she was of European heritage, saw her clerical collar, saw the Bible on the dashboard. White, blond, and Christian. Trifecta. The man's shoulders relaxed and he smiled, waved, and kept going.”
Source: Finding Gideon
“Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.”
“Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.”
“Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.”
“Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.”
Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)
“Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.”
Source: Power Through Prayer
“Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.”
“Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.”
“Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.”
“Preachers love only their own voices.”
Source: Confabulations
“Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.”
“Preachers or scientists may generalize, but we know that no generality is possible about those whom we love; not one heaven awaits them, not even one oblivion.”
Source: Howards End
“Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.”
“Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?”
Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq
“Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.”
“Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.”
“Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.”
“Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.”
“Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.”
Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays
“Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.”
Source: Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication