Quotes On Preaching Quotes & Sayings

When we preach gospel of miracles instead of gospel of the kingdom, we are subverting gospel of the kingdom. — Sunday Adelaja

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance. — Alan Watts

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become — Sunday Adelaja

The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption. — Sunday Adelaja

You seem to have a problem with me," he says in typical Griggs fashion.
I can tell he regrets saying it when he is treated to one of Hannah's long cold gazes.
"I think it will be a while before I forgive the trip to Sydney," she says flatly.
"Fair enough. I think it will be a while before I forgive you for what you put her through over the past six weeks."
I watch them both and for the first time it occurs to me that I'm no longer flying solo and that I have no intention of pretending that I am. I have an aunt and I have a Griggs and this is what it's like to have connections with people.
"Do you know what?" I ask both of them. "If you don't build a bridge and get over it, I'll never forgive either of you. — Melina Marchetta

I always root for the monster. — J.R. Ward

There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder — Aaron Hernandez

The churches are preaching miracles and not gospel of the kingdom. — Sunday Adelaja

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view. — Gregory Benford

No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach. — Sunday Adelaja

He couldn't even remember her name any more. when, he caught himself wondering, had he started to forget? — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way. — Nikki Rowe

Interesting Avil, the priests and the acolytes of the various religions and temples of Torea build their whole lives on a lie. At first, as children they believe it. Maybe as they grow older and more wise they see the absurdness of their beliefs, but by that time they have invested time and emotional energy into those beliefs, then seeing them crumble and fall apart would be too hard for them to bear. So the protect the lie, they shore it up with more lies and they ebb out their short lives, knowing what they preach is untrue, but preaching it all the same ... Almost as if preaching it hard enough will make it true ... Are they trying to convince their congregation? Or themselves? You are wiser than you look Avil. — Martyn Stanley

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. — Malcolm Gladwell

There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould — Adhish Mazumder

It was one of those rare moments where life delivers on the promises offered by Hollywood ... I just stood there and watched her disappear like the pathetic, 'romantic' coward I was (and still am, I guess) ... In a way, it was a perfect moment
everything I had been waiting for ... People like me probably don't want anything to actually happen to them anyway ... — Daniel Clowes

When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing. — Sunday Adelaja

The church that emphasises on miracles are indirectly preaching that merit does not mater. — Sunday Adelaja