#reacher

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

A loyal American wife should never be without a gun in her purse, just in case her husband turns traitor. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loyalty #marriage #treachery #funny

I have no respect to merchants and preachers; as far as I’m concerned, their only talent is coming up with the right word at the right time. What is a professional preacher, really? He is a kind of middleman who for the wrong reasons tries to make people buy his goods. The more he sells, the more his stock rises. The louder he hawks his wares, the larger his business grows. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#preachers #business

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#american cinema #become #cesspool #change #cinema

Who's Kreacher?" "The house-elf who lives here," said Ron. "Nutter. Never met one like him." "He is not a nutter," said Hermione. "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother", said Ron. "Is that normal, Hermione? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humour #kreacher #ron-weasley #life

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#jesus-christ #preachers #puritans #revivalist #nature

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

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response. ↗

— Roland Allen

#among #because #believe #calling #expect

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#i #life #lord #my life #preacher

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#gifts #however #man #must #nothing