Top 141 Preacher Quotes

I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I’m at it because that’s the, you know, that’s the preacher in me.

I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the Anglican Church was part of our lives.

Do I recognize that I’ve been labeled as a prosperity preacher? I recognize that.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

We’re not preachers, but we say, ‘Let’s try and change things.’

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I’ve got a sister who races motorcycles and another sister who’s a Holy Roller preacher.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

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.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.

My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.

When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you’re in church all the time, as a youngster, you’ve got to find something to do. That’s where my musical background comes from.

Seth Rogen told me to read ‘Preacher,’ and ‘Preacher’ was amazing.

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

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

The false black preacher is only too happy to reinforce the idea of the white man as scapegoat. His sermons make the congregation angrier and more bitter. And the angrier they become, the easier it is for the minister to control them.

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what’s going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I’d be a preacher.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

They decided to no longer air my messages on ‘The Hour of Power.’ They felt they could have greater impact if they had lots of different preachers. ‘The Hour of Power’ owns the Crystal Cathedral, and the owners, in effect, evicted me… so that they could have other preachers on Sunday mornings.

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn’t play ball too good – I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn’t preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

There’s this idea supposedly that we preachers are supposed to walk about with sandals and ride bicycles. That’s nonsense.

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

A lot of preachers’ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn’t be any argument among us children, ‘Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?’ He thought about that. He said, ‘preacher.’ So that’s what’s going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.

I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

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.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men ‘mesmerize’ each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I’m more humane than that.

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

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s – Preacher’s Kids. Be afraid.

If you’re a preacher’s kid, you see the church differently.

Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

I was ordained into the ministry through my local church in February of 2000. I had already been doing a lot of speaking. So basically, my vocation in life changed and I went from a professional wrestler to a itinerate preacher.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

I really, really loved ‘Preacher.’ I can’t wait to go back. It’s one of the best times I’ve had filming.

I cannot accept concepts such as Gulenism or Gulenist. I was only a writer and an official preacher among people. I can have no direct influence on any person or activity. It is inconceivable that I can exert pressure on anybody.

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.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

There’s no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.

If I’m doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don’t believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that’s a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn’t call yourself a comedian.

Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God’s work and is powerless to project God’s cause in this world.

Negroes’ problem is that they do not have their egos. That’s why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God’s word, so he have to go and get some white fellow’s agenda and put it in his church.

I’m writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to ‘The Preacher’s Wife,’ which starred Whitney Houston… I’m writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.

My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.

And you don’t have to be a preacher to carry on. That’s why I’ve gone into the theater, with my mother’s blessings, and someday I may write, produce and act in my own story of daddy’s life. There are so many sides to his story. I hope that someday I could get that opportunity.

I’d make a bad preacher.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

I’m a preacher’s kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone’s always watching.