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There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
-Proverb
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The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.
-Proverb
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Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
-Jim Bakker
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
-Hosea Ballou
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If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.
-Bowen Baxter
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I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
-Richard Baxter
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Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth -- who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.
-Charlotte Bronte
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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
-Robert Browning
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The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
-Samuel Butler
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The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
-Richard Cecil
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He preaches well that lives well.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
-Harvey Cox
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The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar.
-Charles Eastman
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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
-Paul Gauguin
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
-Edgar A. Guest
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Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human.
-Oswald C. Hoffman
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Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.
-Ivan Illich
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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
-Samuel Johnson
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
-Samuel Johnson
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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.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Evangelism is selling a dream.
-Guy Kawasaki
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