Preaching Quotations

One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.

People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

We started the year preaching the defense will lead the rest of the game. We have to be best there in order to win.

We started 0-5 because of that. We got down big at the J&C Hoops Classic every game. We have been preaching that. I thought before the game we'd have an advantage at the guard spot and it seemed to hold true.

Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

This was as good of a pitching outing by three people that I could hope for. We had the Great White Shark mentality I've been preaching about.

We treat it as an 11-round season and our guys understand that, and if they don't, I'm going to keep preaching it because it's true. The more you win, the more that is at stake.

We're always preaching score early and score often. The girls seem to relax when we can get out on top. We've been hitting well and in timely situations and that's something we didn't do that well last year.

We've shot well the last three of four weeks. We've been talking and preaching patience on offense and getting good shots. Our shooting percentage has steadily gone up.

We have had a hard time making contact especially in the bottom half of the order and we just have been preaching to put the ball into play and good things can happen. We had several opportunities to break the game open and we didn't do it. However, this was our first game and it gives us something to work on.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

She came preaching universal holiness in a universally unholy time.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

More than preaching those things, he did those things.

Number one, I was trying to change our fortune. Number two, we've been preaching a lot about character and showing some class. I just thought it'd be a sign of showing kids that you didn't have to look like a bum all the time to do a job. They got a kick out of it. I think it loosened them up a little bit.

Nothing in life is guaranteed and I've been preaching that from Day 1. We're here this year but we can finish last next year.

Nothing in life is guaranteed and I've been preaching that from Day 1, ... We're here this year but we can finish last next year.

I was preaching to the people at the Superdome because they were only looking after themselves, not after each other, and I told them, 'God wants you to help each other. You have to help each other or you will all die.'

I'm always preaching to the guys to play bigger than they are.

I found that to be a little scary, a little weird, a little 'What was this guy thinking?' ... He seemed like the kind of person who would go around preaching all of this stuff that would probably frighten people. And in a fraternity, that's the last thing you want to happen.

I got a couple big offensive rebounds down the stretch that we kind of converted on. So plays like that, a couple tips here and there on defense, things like that ... Coach has been preaching to the team about.

He's been preaching the same thing all year. I know he's frustrated as far as what's going on with the team. We, as players, have to be able to accept that and correct it.

His preaching is birthed out of love for people, and his love for God surpasses his love for people.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

He keeps preaching to me that that's the kind of receiver I can be. I watch him and I admire the guy, so I'm going to go out there and watch film of him because that's the kind of receiver I want to be, a nasty guy who does everything.

It boosts everybody's morale. Everybody feels like now we know we can do it. Guys have been preaching all along how good we are and the kind of team we're capable of being, and it showed today.

I want to try to put them in a place where they have a shot. That's part of my job. A lot of guys start off too high so I'm preaching to the guys that we've got to get one (lift) in.

It is beautiful. We really enjoy it. The response is overwhelming. The standing ovations are wonderful. Everyone loves being on the road preaching the gospel.

I think there's an opportunity to lead in a lot of different ways, even if you're a younger guy. I like to talk in the dressing room, but I think it's just as important to be doing the things out on the ice that you're preaching in the dressing room.

Jess was aggressive with her shooting today. That's something we have been preaching for two years. She is such an unselfish player.

I think early on guys were trying to feel each other out trying to move the ball. I don't think we have a selfish team by any means, but we have guys that are confident, that feel like they can take their man at times. I think one of the things we have been preaching early on is that the next man can take his man, too. If there's a better opportunity we have to move the ball.

I saw 10 kids working together for a common cause and that's the big thing we've been preaching going into sectionals. Now it's time for us to continue that effort. I told them those last two minutes is what tourney basketball is all about. We've got to have that effort for 32. If we do that, we'll be in good shape.

Our coaching philosophy at Council Rock is that you should watch each other's back, and support one another. We're always preaching that to the kids. It's great to see this in action outside the field of play.

People who sow seeds of discord by preaching tribalism, racism and religious misunderstanding should find another place to go.

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

My own feeling is that he was a shyster and that he would become anything to get his way. Like, if he met you, he would be preaching papal supremacy.

I was getting frustrated watching balls go up from the three-point line, when those guys are standing 1-on-1 in the post with a guy 6-6 guarding them. It's hard sometimes. I'm constantly preaching to (Green and guard Lee Humphrey), 'When you're open, let it go.' Sometimes you have to change your thought processes.

It is essentially a matter of being clear on what your message is, and then preaching it, selling it, if you will, to the faithful and those you hope will become the faithful.

That's the two guys he let pass him in the last race. Charles has really been working on his finish, I've been preaching that to him. It's how do you finish your race.

That's what I've been preaching to them for the last eight years--that their job at the end of the day is not to gauge whether their actions are going to cause embarrassment or not, whether what we ask them to do is convenient, or consistent with safe decisions and smooth careers,

I would like him to pick up his scoring a little bit and I know I'm preaching a teamwork aspect of the game, so he might be looking to pass a little more and that might be cutting into his scoring.

We were moving our feet on defense finally, not trying to do it all (individually) and quit reaching. They had a great time. The girls finally got into the up tempo mode that we've been preaching all year, and they had a smile on their face. ... There were times where we had two, three girls out in front with the ball before (Seaside) turned their heads around.

We're buying into what he's saying. He's been preaching to us since he first stepped foot in Charlottesville. It feels like everybody is really responding to what he's saying. When it comes game time, it's really showing.

We have to play mistake-free football to be competitive in the game. I've been preaching mental toughness all week. That's going to be the key for us.

We have a lot of young kids that are going to pitch for us. We are preaching throw strikes and keeping the ball in play. We are trying to grow them into varsity pitchers fairly quickly.

We need to figure out how to grow the sport outside of enthusiast. So we are no longer just preaching to the choir.

We know there's a track season and then there's a championship season. We've been preaching that if everybody just concentrates on their job and doesn't worry about whether they're letting the team down or not living up to somebody's expectations then they're going to be OK.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

We are able to select great preaching from great preachers. We can control the quality of the sermons by only showing the good ones.

The only reason we're alive is because we really believe it. Coach Howland has been preaching defense since Day 1 and our level of focus has really risen. We really believe in what the coaching staff is teaching us.

We've been working on getting balanced scoring. We've been preaching it.

The critical thing addressed here today is that there are a good number of people who do not have a family connection to hunting or the outdoors. It takes a caring older person to introduce a young person to the outdoor life. That is the beauty of the mentoring concept. It can be a hard thing to see the beauty and the joy of the outdoor experience all on your own, at least initially. Much more has been accomplished here today that preaching to the choir.

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

We have completely stepped up our defensive level. We're much better than what we were earlier in the season. It's kind of what I've been preaching all year long. We're starting to mesh and play together a lot more than we were early in the season.

We have been able to put pressure on people, and we've never been able to come through with that big hit when we needed it. Taylor got up there and stepped up with the triple, and that was huge for us because that was something we've been preaching and preaching and finally somebody did it and it takes the pressure off of everyone else.

We will focus on the positives we had tonight and continue to get after it in practice. If the effort is there, the sky is the limit for this team. I've been preaching that from day one. I think they realize now that hard work - in practice and in games - wins basketball games.

We kept preaching to the team that it was a new season. We just told them that we had four matches left to get where we wanted to go and they all jumped on board. This is really what it's all about.

We kept preaching how hard you have to play. We were a bit overanxious there in the first quarter and made some defensive mistakes, but once we settled into a rhythm, things started to go our way.

We keep preaching the same thing we did last year. (We tell the kids) to do your best, just keep on improving.

We're not playing desperate. Like I've been preaching all season, hard work will eventually turn out and show up for our team.

We've only got two seniors. We've been preaching composure to them, and I think they grew up tonight.

We are either burned out or polarized. Most people have made up their minds about what they think about the war (in Iraq) and other key issues. What you are seeing is preaching to the converted. You see that again in the fascination with the fluffier side of the news.

We are either burned out or polarized, ... Most people have made up their minds about what they think about the war (in Iraq) and other key issues. What you are seeing is preaching to the converted. You see that again in the fascination with the fluffier side of the news.

But then, watching the whole film, it was like hearing my own voice - like the director preaching to the audience. So I started to cut and in the end, I think it became more of a love story.

We've been preaching to the girls that we've been in playoff mode since last Monday (when Rutland went back to practice after defeating cross-town rival Mount St. Joseph). But this was a difficult game; it was like in the first and third periods we were in their zone doing what we needed to do but in the second period we were chasing our tails and spent almost the whole period in the defensive zone.

We've been preaching steal, steal, steal. Cedric did a nice job. He's got a quick move, and we were seeing live competition for the first time. We will get that corrected.

We've been preaching (good passing) since the beginning, and today was our best performance this season.

We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.

Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.

We had to face a lot of adversity this week with all the media attention and the coaching situation. When you're faced with adversity, that's when families come together. That's what we've been preaching all year. We really bonded. When the chips were down, we really stepped it up.

We were preaching all week that we wanted to get a shutout,

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

We got rattled in the Kentucky game. We got rattled in the Arkansas game. We got rattled in the Alabama game. Coach Pearl has been preaching that we can't get rattled. We have to stay aggressive.

Bratkowski has been preaching to us the last couple of years that our will to prepare to win has to be greater than our will to win. That's what the good football teams do. They out-prepare people. We have to get our young guys' football knowledge up. You don't need to run a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash to do it. We've got to play smart football.

Bob is respected. He's trusted, and he's very, very comfortable giving the news. We think at CBS News that the news should be delivered in a respectful and a comfortable way, not as if you were preaching the gospel from Mount Olympus.

Doyle's an intense character. Doyle's trying to atone for his own past and he has to help Angel-but he doesn't want to become too involved. On one hand, here he is preaching to Angel to get involved with humans and really care about them, but meanwhile Doyle would rather be at the track betting the ponies and drinking.