Top 205 Preach Quotes

Now I don’t really write for adults or kids – I don’t write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let’s leave judgment in the hands of God.

I am a minister and I preach forgiveness all time.

The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he’s a great interpreter of my music.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

At the highest level of the government, we have to set the tone and preach by example.

I don’t envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

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.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.

When you do life a certain way, it’s bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that’s what we preach.

I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I’m always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.

Films which often preach Hindu-Muslim unity have deliberately steered clear of Hindu-Muslim love stories.

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.

I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can’t be this one-way, ‘Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.’ It doesn’t work that way.

I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

Whenever you try to preach something, people will not accept or invite it into their lives. But if it is said in a light way, people understand it better, and it is as true for films as it is for life.

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you’re writing for is smarter than you. You can’t write if you don’t think they’re on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience’s ability to feel me.

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don’t set out to be one now. I won’t preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don’t know any better than the next person.

Now you’ve been in the playoffs once, you know what it tastes like, you know what it feels like. You know, going through the season when Coach is preaching physicality, how hard you gotta play, how you gotta take care of the ball, why he’s saying that. Because all that comes into play in playoff basketball.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it’s more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don’t practice or preach it, however.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I’m preaching to the choir.

I feel like in the NFL, they preach loyalty and family and they have none for you. As a player, you see it’s not a family during negotiations, how it becomes them versus me or me versus them. That’s part of the NFL I believe the fans don’t see.

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.

My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!’

I don’t just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!

For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the truth is, that simply isn’t the case.

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.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

When we say, ‘We’re here for you,’ we mean it to this point – everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.

The point is movies can teach a lot without preaching.

I’m all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.

I mean, I just felt like Alabama fit me the best. What Coach Saban preaches about it all the time and what his players represent, I wanted to be a part of that.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

It’s difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it’s basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There’s no real rhyme or reason for that. So it’s difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

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

My kids don’t listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that matters.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it’s entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he’ll be hooked.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

If you really believe in the message you’re preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

Let me just tell you this, my aim in life is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, that’s all I care about.

I’ve always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

I don’t want to preach to people.

I try not to be someone who’s preaching a message with my films or anything like that.

A thing that I’m always worried about doing is putting an image of myself on my Instagram or somewhere else that looks perfect, because that’s not who I am, and that’s not what I want to preach.

I’ve been a vegan and a vegetarian for 15 years and I’ve always just quietly kept and values and my beliefs to myself. I didn’t want to preach or be outspoken about all these things.

Some of the best leaders in the world find they learn something every day to be a better leader. Whether it’s developing a relationship, learning what someone likes or doesn’t like, putting forth the extra effort so guys understand you do what you preach.