#preach

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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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

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My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ↗

— Martin Luther

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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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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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In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached. ↗

— John Strachan

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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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I have no respect to merchants and preachers; as far as I’m concerned, their only talent is coming up with the right word at the right time. What is a professional preacher, really? He is a kind of middleman who for the wrong reasons tries to make people buy his goods. The more he sells, the more his stock rises. The louder he hawks his wares, the larger his business grows. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

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If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. ↗

— Roland Allen

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