I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
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.
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
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.
I've been known to preach.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I'm very 'preacher-ish' on stage, not by intent but because that's where I learned to talk in front of people.
A man can preach no better than he prays.
I don't want to preach to people.
The working class who toil everyday to pay their rent and put food on their families' tables are tired of being lectured by the fat cats in Washington and Brussels who preach what we need and when we need it.
I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.
The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers.
I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.
I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.
I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out.
A thing that I'm always worried about doing is putting an image of myself on my Instagram or somewhere else that looks perfect, because that's not who I am, and that's not what I want to preach.
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
I've always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we're going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.
My father has been faithful to the calling that God gave him: that is, to preach the Gospel... He has presented Christ to every person that God has put before him.
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins.
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.
I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.