#preached

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

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#assumed #before #behold #conditions #far

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. ↗

— George Whitefield

#churches #heathen #jesus #jesus christ #mere

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#began #bronx #brooklyn #gangs #happen

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#any #audiences #because #being #convey

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

#attitude #finds #now #practiced #preached

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#experience #fun #know #knowing #made

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#another #apostle #called #censured #doctrines

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. ↗

— Macklemore

#editing #fine #fine line #however #i

Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days. ↗

— Mike Moreno

#days #despite #diets #done #healthy