#preach

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fiction writer #i #i write #novels #preacher

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#experience #fun #know #knowing #made

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

#clearly #covenant #grace #may #more

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#apostles #between #business #conceive #cotton

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#down #help #ounce #person #pound

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience. ↗

— James Brown

#cause #feel #get #i #i can

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#how #i #like #movies #preach

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#am #i #i am #practicing #preach

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. ↗

— John Strachan

#been #bishop #commanding #conception #eloquence