Preacher Quotes

Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

My grandpa was a preacher.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

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.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

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