#preacher

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. ↗

— Eliza Cook

#good #good works #language #make #man

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

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #contradictory #humility #preacher #qualities

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#controlled #corporation #farmers #golden #i

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

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate. ↗

— Sallust

#every #feelings #generally #most #moved

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#always #book #books #great #into

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

#eat #i #learned #like #one thing

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

#preachers #business

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new. ↗

— Russell Johnson

#any #away #become #christ #man

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#equal #extract #indulge #live #money