Preach Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

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