Sermonizing Quotes

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

The last thing I ever want to do is be preachy.

I've been known to preach.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

I don't want to preach to people.

I don't ever preach to people.

I'd make a bad preacher.

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

When I was a young boy I used to raise chickens and I was studying to be a preacher. I used to practice preaching to the chickens. Some of those chickens listened to me better than some of my colleagues now in the Congress.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartland preaching from town to town and church to church.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

My job is to preach and preach and preach.