#preach

I was born into a family of preachers. ↗

— David Soul

#family #i #i was born #into #preachers

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. ↗

— John Strachan

#christian #church #converted #day #ever

It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of preaching, so we accepted their [the communists' ] terms. It was a deal; we preached and they beat us. We were happy preaching. They were happy beating us, so everyone was happy. ↗

— Richard Wurmbrand

#courage #persecution #preaching #courage

What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed to be so universally obvious that they always give their horoscope readers that special eerie feeling of particularity and insight, exploiting the psychological fact that most people are narcissistic and prone to the illusion that they and their problems are uniquely special and that if they’re feeling a certain way then surely they’re the only person who is feeling like that. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#horoscope #humans #narcissism #preach #priest

Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#arcbishop #ask #bishop #christ #clergy

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

#divine #divinity #faith #freedom-of-thought #god

I can hear you preach about freedom, yet your motive that makes me listened. ↗

— Toba Beta

#preach #freedom

Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth? Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth? ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #preach #silly #truth #life

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ease #i #i wish #ignoble #life

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#good #hell #many #money #obtaining