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I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.
In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.
I bought into everything Coach K preached to us. His whole philosophy.
There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.
Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.
For centuries, Tamil Nadu is a holy land of many religious scholars and saints who preached good things.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
I've faced adversity countless, countless times throughout my life. One thing I've always preached is keep pushing.
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.
I'm not afraid to say 'Jesus Christ,' and I'm not afraid to speak of those who worship him. After all, Jesus preached about love.
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet and a chip on each shoulder.
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.
In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
My dad was always super-active and got me in the gym at a young age. He wanted me to be health-conscious. 'Healthy body, healthy mind'; that's what he preached to me.
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.
Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not infused with morals or a message, either, and kids like that.
Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.
Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips.
I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'
My mom laid the foundation that in order for you to be successful, you have to take care of the books first. That's one thing she preached about, because at any point, other stuff can be taken away.
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.
President Reagan preached 'trickle down economics' but naively did not reckon on the fact that the wealthy would only care about getting more for themselves instead of caring about helping those with less.
The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.
I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.
From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
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.
I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.