Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.
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