There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. – Proverb
The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers. – Proverb
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? – Jim Bakker
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. – Hosea Ballou
If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. – Bowen Baxter
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christs particular loves sake! – Robert Browning
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. – Samuel Butler
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. – Richard Cecil
He preaches well that lives well. – Miguel de Cervantes
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. – Harvey Cox
The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar. – Charles Eastman
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Id rather see a sermon than hear one any day; Id rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eyes a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but examples always clear. – Edgar A. Guest
Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not childs play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human. – Oswald C. Hoffman
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. – Samuel Johnson
Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson
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 Gustav Jung
