Quotes of Preach - somelinesforyou

“ If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. ”

- Bowen Baxter

“ One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Saint Francis of Assisi

“ We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. ”

- Richard Baxter

“ One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ”

- Harold Ross

“ That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach. ”

- R. W. Dale

“ One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another… But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. ”

- Anne Hutchinson

“ Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. ”

- Epictetus

“ A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Practice yourself what you preach. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'. ”

- Saint Jerome

“ Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. ”

- Unknown

“ Camerado, I give you my hand; I give you my love more precious than money; I give you myself before preaching or law. Will you give me yourself? ”

- Walt Whitman

“ God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers. ”

- William S. Plumer

“ He preaches well who lives well. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear. ”

- John Selden

“ Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. ”

- George F. Pentecost

“ Nothing preaches better than the act. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. ”

- Mrs. Humphrey Ward

“ Practice what you preach. ”

- Unknown

“ Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off. ”

- Sir Arnold Lunn

“ Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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