Preaching Quotes

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(about Charles S. Dutton`s criticism of "Martin" (1992)) Is Charles Dutton funny? Huh? At the end of the day, no. He`s not. Charles Dutton is not as funny as Martin Lawrence. Now, I got nothing against Charles Dutton... but let`s be truthful here. If "Roc" (1991) was funny, it would be on the air... But Charles Dutton is always preaching. How can you say someone has a negative image? You`re A Murderer!

- Chris Rock

I`m not preaching a sermon from the mount, you know. This is just my own opinion. But it does seem to me that when our industry got vulgar and cheap, we began losing our regular customers. Sure, people are curious, and they`ll go see any provocative thing once - maybe even four or five times - but eventually they`ll just stay home and watch television. There used to be this little Frenchman in Hollywood who made all these risqué movies . . . what the hell was his name? . . . Lubitsch (Ernst Lubitsch, who was actually German)! He could make pictures as risqué as anything you`ll see today, but he made them with taste and illusion. The only sadness in my heart for our business is that we are taking all the illusion out of it. After all, it`s pretty hard to take your daughter to see Deep Throat (1972).

- John Wayne

My own feeling is that he was a shyster and that he would become anything to get his way. Like, if he met you, he would be preaching papal supremacy.

- Walter Matthau

I`m a private guy, and you don`t want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don`t always pick the right path, but it`s there in your conscience.

- Tim McGraw

I don`t want to make that sound like I`m preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it`s hard for people. I`m lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

- Tim McGraw

58% of the American public are with us. We`re preaching to the choir, but the choir`s not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

- Cindy Sheehan

At first I would get mail saying, `Oh, you must be a Christian because the movie (Groundhog Day (1993)) so beautifully expresses Christian belief.` Then rabbis started calling from all over, saying they were preaching the film as their next sermon. And the Buddhists! Well, I knew they loved it because my mother-in-law has lived in a Buddhist meditation centre for 30 years and my wife lived there for five years. - remarks to the New York Times on the ecumenical popularity of Groundhog Day (1993).

- Harold Ramis

The black farmer, working hard for his own, became the living symbol of the strong, independent black man. Farming also allowed black families to move into other businesses, from funeral homes to preaching to construction, and thus served as the bedrock of all black wealth in America.

- Juan Williams

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

- Knute Rockne

(Arrington hopes to be a factor, to help the NFL`s third-ranked defense from last season soar even higher. But rather then feed into the hype with his trademark bold and brash comments, he is preaching restraint.) My sense is not to buy into all of that, ... If we buy into it, we`re kind of setting ourselves up. I don`t want to be a part of a quote that said that we were going to be special this year. I think we`ve got the makings of a great unit, and that could make for a pretty interesting season, but we`ll see what happens.

- LaVar Arrington

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ`s vineyard.

- Pope John Paul II

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Chips`s one of the younger drivers, if not the youngest driver, in the series. For the younger drivers, listening to someone preaching, in effect, it`s easier to hear it from someone in that age group.

- Andy Brown

What the guys have learned is that whether you`re preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn`t matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

- Michael Scott

His preaching is birthed out of love for people, and his love for God surpasses his love for people.

- Marcus Johnson

Number one, I was trying to change our fortune. Number two, we`ve been preaching a lot about character and showing some class. I just thought it`d be a sign of showing kids that you didn`t have to look like a bum all the time to do a job. They got a kick out of it. I think it loosened them up a little bit.

- Clay Jordan

I love to hear great sermons; I like going to church in America because there`s a lot more preaching and less of the routine stuff.

- Bernhard Langer

It boosts everybody`s morale. Everybody feels like now we know we can do it. Guys have been preaching all along how good we are and the kind of team we`re capable of being, and it showed today.

- Scott White

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.

- Floyd Abrams

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

- Alex Okosi

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

- Allen Sinai

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

- Amitai Sandy

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

- Ammar Dwaik

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

- Andre Gold

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

- Andre P. Brink

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

- Andrea Wright

Do you think it`s possible to discuss politics without preaching?

- Andrei Denisov

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

- Andrew Mellon

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan`s prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

- Andrew Nielson

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

- Andy Bicking

I was preaching to the people at the Superdome because they were only looking after themselves, not after each other, and I told them, `God wants you to help each other. You have to help each other or you will all die.`

- Andy Donchin

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

- Albert Einstein

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

- John E. Hines

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

- Mahatma Gandhi