Preaching Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Preaching.
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“Kerygma”
“A little, round, fat, oily man of God.”
“He taught them how to live and how to die.”
“Sermons in stones and good in every thing.”
“And truths divine came mended from that tongue.”
“Le sermon edifie, et l'example detruit.”
“Let the sermon thou hast heard be converted into prayer.”
“The lilies say: Behold how we
Preach without words of purity.”
“With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.”
“Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
Thy praise, Hypocrisy!”
“A kick that scarce would move a horse,
May kill a sound divine.”
“By thy language cabalistic,
By thy cymbal, drum, and his stick.”
“It is by the Vicar's skirts that the
Devil climbs into the Belfry.”
“The orator is thereby an orator that he keeps his feet ever on a fact.”
“And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.”
“Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.”
“Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.”
“Take time enough: all other graces
Will soon fill up their proper places.”
“I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.”