Quotes about Preachers
Typically, preachers in our work-oriented society teach that God rested to provide humanity with a precedent for rest, an example for our good. Seldom have I heard mention of the other meaning for rest, the one used in musical notation. This meaning refers to cessation rather than recovery from weariness. Our enjoyment of music owes much to these brief pauses.
— Hugh Ross
Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.
— David Green
Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News.
— Billy Graham
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
— Billy Sunday
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.
— Stephen Jay Gould
It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.
— Sojourner Truth
Too many churches today have preachers who look to the culture around them not simply for the most effective methods of communicating their message but for the most effective message to be preached.
— Mark Dever
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
— John Wesley
Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.
— John Wesley
Do not despise or run down any preacher; do not exalt any one above the rest, lest you hurt both him and the cause of God.
— John Wesley
A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
— Joel Osteen
One of my favorite kingdom preachers is Minneapolis pastor of Sanctuary Covenant Church, Efrem Smith.
— Scot McKnight