#preacher

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

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

— Wes Bentley

#church #grew #i #methodist #parents

Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#crack #everyone #got #kid #oh

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

— Richard Cecil

#know #looks #mean #out #preachers

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. ↗

— Eliza Cook

#good #good works #language #make #man

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

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#because #both #get #home #i

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #contradictory #humility #preacher #qualities

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

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#close #club #come #could #cynicism