#preach

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Milan Kundera

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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword. ↗

— Steven Runciman

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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate. ↗

— Sallust

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Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ↗

— George Savile

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I pretty much preach, teach and nag. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

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What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia. ↗

— Michael Scott

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