Preach Quotes

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

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

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

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.

When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.

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.

I don't just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

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.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

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

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

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.

So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!

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.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

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.

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.

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.