#preach

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

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My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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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. ↗

— William Feather

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Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why? ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#fury #love #order #organized #organized religion

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers. ↗

— George Whitefield

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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. ↗

— Francis Wright

#conformity #creeds #hired #never #opinions

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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