What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough. . . Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
The trouble with us is that we've preached a 'cross' religion, and we need to preach a 'throne' religion. By that I mean that people have thought they were supposed to remain at the cross. Some have received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, have backed up to the cross, and have stayed there ever since. . . The cross is actually a place of defeat, whereas the Resurrection is a place of triumph. When you preach the cross, you're preaching death, and you leave people in death.
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.
And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.
Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.
Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.
None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.
