#preacher

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ↗

— Barry M. Goldwater

#compromise #god #lobbying #politics #preachers

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! ↗

— Robert Duvall

#black #church #churches #ever #going

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme. ↗

— Saul Williams

#i #mother #preacher #rhyme #teacher

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. ↗

— Vance Havner

#him #himself #keep #preacher #prepare

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#auditors #bottom #influence #more #preachers

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#church #grew #i #methodist #parents

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#know #looks #mean #out #preachers

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#became #both #brother #farm #farmer

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#always #because #i #kid #preacher