#preacher

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#chapel #church #god #preacher #preaching

I'd make a bad preacher. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#i #make #preacher

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#liars #manipulation #men-and-women #narcissism #narcissists

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. ↗

— George Whitefield

#gives #hearer #himself #makes #neither

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

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. ↗

— John Lennon

#artist #express #feel #how #leader

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 lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#every #guy #ibm #lawyers #life

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#germany #hate #integration #little #long

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#controlled #corporation #farmers #golden #i