Quotes of: Preachers Keyword

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Aldous Huxley

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

Alexandra Stoddard

A preacher’s job is preaching. So how come he gets to work on the day of rest?

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When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

George Foreman

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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.

Katy Perry

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

Jessica Hahn

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.

Edward McKendree Bounds

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

John Piper

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

Joel Osteen

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Jimmy Swaggart

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Adam Clarke

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, 'Well, are you a Republican or an American?' The two words serve different concepts an...

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. -Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

American Pie

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Sallust

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.

Tori Amos

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

Timothy Radcliffe

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.

Ruben Studdard

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.

Al Sharpton

Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.

David Green

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Pete Seeger