| Author |
Quotes |
| Dante Alighieri | Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. |
| Emily Dickinson | God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along. |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | Do as we say, and not as we do. |
| John Armstrong | Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And he practis'd what he preach'd. |
| John Byrom | Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. |
| Matthew Arnold | I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Bravely! said he; for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread. |
| Richard Baxter | I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. |
| Richard Hooker | Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. |
| George Herbert | Judge not the preacher, for he is thy judge, If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience. |
| John Dryden | The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preaching much, but more his practice wrought, For this by rules severe his life he squar'd, That all might see the doctrines which they heard. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. |
| Robert Browning | For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters! |
| Robert Burns | Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, He's stampin', and he's jumpin'! |
| Samuel Butler | And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. |
| William Cowper | There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. |
| William Cowper | I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. |
| William Cowper | He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. |
| William Cowper | The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem, and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene! |
| William Cowper | A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. |
| William Cowper | The priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year, But oh! it cuts him like a scythe When tithing time draws near. |
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