Preaching Quotes

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I'd love to be placed in a position to make a difference in regards to my faith, in regards to speaking for Jesus, whether that's some type of ministry platform, being in a big-time position where I could make a difference.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

That none be permitted to preach, or interpret the Scriptures, unless he be a priest, or deacon at the least, admitted thereunto according to the laws of this realm

I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

I want to be maybe the modern-day Billy Graham.

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.

I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.

But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

I grew up in the church.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.

The Machine is the new Messiah. Machinery is accomplishing in the world what man has failed to do by preaching, propaganda, or the written word.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.