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Emily Dickinson
God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
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John Armstrong
Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd.
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John Byrom
Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.
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John Dryden
The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preaching much, but more his practice wrought; (A living sermon of the truths he taught:) For this by rules severe his life he squar'd: That all might see the doctrines which they heard.
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Lord Byron
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
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Matthew Arnold
I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Bravely! said he; for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.
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Oliver Goldsmith
But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
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Oliver Goldsmith
They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first born--ah!
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
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Richard Baxter
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
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Richard Hooker
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
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Robert Browning
For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
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Robert Burns
Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!
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Samuel Butler
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
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William Cowper
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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William Cowper
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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William Cowper
Would I describe a preacher, . . . . I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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William Cowper
He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
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