Preacher Quotes

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker, The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858

“If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.”
― Eugene V. Debs

“A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.”
― Todd Stocker

“Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“If I woke up one morning and realized that all I ever was going to be was a business man, I'd probably die. All my dreams would be shattered. Early in life I had many dreams. I dreamed of being a great basketball star. I dreamed of being a preacher. I dreamed of saving the world from war and racism. And I dreamed of being a great poet. Today, I dream only of writing.”
― Harley King, Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!

“The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)”
― Philip Wylie

“My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, “God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today.”
― John Alexander Dowie

“Amidst the sea of medieval bigots dominating the domain of religion, there are also priests and preachers who are bringing in a whiff of fresh air.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“I am not opposed to preaching how lovely people are, but it should never go unaccompanied by exhortation about how sinful we are.”
― Brother Pedro

“Contemporary reformers often forget to preach about the cross. Even when they mention the cross, it is done too softly, and their preaching is not based on the cross of the Lord.”
― Brother Pedro

“Biblical preaching is exposing the mind of God, as revealed in the Word of God, to the people of God, for the glory of God”
― Royal Raj S

“For those of you who still believe two plus two equals four, don't be afraid to walk out that door.'
-Rev. Matthias G. Witherspoon”
― Philip Wyeth, Reparations Maze

“Never for a moment try to help yourself out of a difficulty by a lie or by a questionable act. Instead, keep in the middle of the high road of truth and integrity, and you will be following the best possible course. In our lives we must never practice deceit or duplicity. Be just and do not fear.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook: Daily Devotional - Promises for Today

“Is not patient silence the best reply to a resisting world? Calm endurance answers some questions infinitely more conclusively than the greatest eloquence.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning by Morning: Daily Devotional Readings

“Let us never fear. The stars in their courses fight against the enemies of our souls. Often when we march to the conflict, we find no army to contend with.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook: Daily Devotional - Promises for Today

“Character is worth more than anything else in the whole wide world.”
― Dwight L. Moody, Daniel, Man of God: Being a Man of Character in a Babylon World

“We should experience for ourselves the doctrines that we teach to others.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Golden Alphabet: An Exposition of Psalm 119

“We cannot fight a good fight or finish our course unless we keep the faith.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Golden Alphabet: An Exposition of Psalm 119

“If we cannot row, we can steer... We need a rod to point out the way as much as a staff to support us in it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Golden Alphabet: An Exposition of Psalm 119

“Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless ocean of life. Without it he is an abandoned vessel, the sport of winds and waves.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Evening by Evening: Daily Devotional Readings

“There is no calm more deep than that which follows a storm.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Evening by Evening: Daily Devotional Readings

“The world is upside down, and therefore the first are last and the last are first.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning by Morning: Daily Devotional Readings

“Our safety lies in sticking close to what is true and right.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“How can I expect to be at home in the enemy’s country, joyful while in exile, or comfortable in a wilderness? This is not my rest. This is the place of the furnace, the forge, and the hammer.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Faith’s Checkbook: Daily Devotional - Promises for Today

“Some of those now hearing me will, before this time next year, do things which, if whispered to them now, would call forth the angry retort: Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing? On the other hand, there are those who will, within a year, perform acts of heroic faith and love which they would not now believe though a man should show them unto them. We never know what is in us, or what manner of men we are, till the trial comes.”
― James Stalker, The Four Men

“It is true that we endure trials, but it is just as true that we are delivered out of them.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning by Morning: Daily Devotional Readings

“If we cannot clear away the fog, it might be better to rise to a higher level and get above it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“When we are least afraid, we have the most reason to fear.”
― Charles Bridges

“The saint in public may be a devil in private.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning by Morning: Daily Devotional Readings

“When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Evening by Evening: Daily Devotional Readings