Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold the pulpit and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
I preach there are all kinds of truth your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
O my brethren my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden but powerful presence of Christ whilst I am preaching to you.
I'm not comfortable being preachy but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
My father's a preacher my mother's a teacher thus I rhyme.
Society can overlook murder adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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.
I'm an atheist but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist the answer is Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it however.
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts 24/7 propagating Religious Right politics along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
On Memorial Day I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets who started preaching peace men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
With the help of dedicated Americans from our party every party and no party at all I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
If you're asking your kids to exercise then you better do it too. Practice what you preach.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.