Quotes Tagged "preach"

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down with the ship. I will not be guilty of the ineffable meanness of paddling away in some orthodox canoe. I will go down with the ship, with those who love me, and with those whom I have loved. If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has wrung the hearts of the tender; it has furrowed the cheeks of the good. This doctrine never should be preached again. What right have you, sir, Mr. clergyman, you, minister of the gospel, to stand at the portals of the tomb, at the vestibule of eternity, and fill the future with horror and with fear? I do not believe this doctrine: neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake and the conscience of a hyena.

God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

Smartass Disciple: Three years! I've listened you preaching just for this silly truth? Master of Stupidity: Who said I was preaching? Who said anything about the truth?

The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make

If we still advise we shall never do.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is tho accept the fact that everything that happens to is has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

I will preach with my brush.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.