And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

- Frances Wright

Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.

- Joe Frazier

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

- Jerry Spinelli

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.

- John Ortberg

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

- Jimmy Carr

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.

- Hiram Rhodes Revels

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

- Hillary Clinton

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

- George Foreman

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

- Francis of Assisi

Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

- Adam Hamilton

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

- Edmund Burke

Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.

- Curtis Mayfield

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

- Conor Oberst

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

- Billy Graham

The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.

- Armando Iannucci

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

- America Ferrera