#preach

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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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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My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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A man can preach no better than he prays. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

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