I don’t appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.
Growing up a preacher’s kid wasn’t the easiest thing. Everybody’s always watching you to see how you’ll behave – or misbehave.
As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny’s preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind not unlike a bloodhound’s, excoriating the congregation and condemning it to hell.
Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they’re all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country’s heartland preaching from town to town and church to church.
Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.
My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.
The preacher’s sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.
Me with diabetes, when I talk about it, it lifts people up. When I talk about how people need to take their insulin shots, it make people go take their shots. My words is like a damn preacher.
Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord’s correction.
I had just gotten a job on ‘Preacher’ on AMC and was in New Orleans starting work on that. My agent called and said ‘Are you sitting down?’ and I said ‘No’ and he said ‘Scott Rudin wants you to do ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and all I could say was ‘Oh my God, I’ll have to call you back.’
As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
I don’t have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
I’m a preacher’s kid, I’m big-boned, I have giant feet, and I’ve always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, ‘I can’t fail. I’m invincible. I’m made of green juice and concrete; nothing’s gonna happen to me.’
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch – old Westerns and stuff that wasn’t vulgar or violent at all.
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.
If you’re a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don’t make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don’t like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.
Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.
I can’t understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that’s not religion, that’s not helping humanity, that’s organizing an army to defeat somebody.
I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.
The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God’s Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.
My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.
From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.
Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.
Preacher’s kids usually go one way or the other – way wild, or they follow in their dad’s footsteps.
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
Drugs are in every walk of life – doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
With all respect, I’m sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they’re being preached at.
Daniel Kolenda is an outstanding preacher with a message of salvation. He knows how to throw the net out, and he knows how to pull it back in. Many people are coming to salvation as a result of it.
‘Preacher’ really appeals to my iconoclastic nature because I’m a student of comparative world religions since my early 20s, so I love shows that really challenge what you think about all these things. I think it’s genius. I was so excited there was a role I could play on it.
My grandpa was a preacher.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
I don’t like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they’re the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it’s characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You’re not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn.
Preachers prepare with this fear: ‘Am I going to be able to fill the time?’ The audience never worries about that.
The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
The prosperity gospel and its purveyors are worldwide and account for the rapid growth of Pentecostalism, the global religious movement prosperity preachers come from.
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman’s family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Sometimes I think Jesus can’t wait until we preachers finish our boring sermons. He can’t wait to heal people.
I’m a storyteller… a preacher.
My dad was a preacher.
I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that ’cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn’t scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.
‘Preacher’ – what it’s saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It’s asking, ‘Where is God?’ If he is there, what’s he doing?
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn’t have status or wealth.
As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.
My dad… was in the military, a drill sergeant, when he was a preacher. You know how some Christians really get into church and become very radical? Imagine him as a radical and a drill sergeant. It was intense.
We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a ‘wanton woman.’
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
