Preaching - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48081<![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082<![CDATA[The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preaching much, but ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48083<![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48084<![CDATA[But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48085<![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48086<![CDATA[Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48087<![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088<![CDATA[Would I describe a preacher, . . . . I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48076<![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077<![CDATA[The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48078<![CDATA[A kick that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48079<![CDATA[The priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year, But oh! it cuts him like a scythe ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48080<![CDATA[Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48068<![CDATA[For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48069<![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48070<![CDATA[And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48071<![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48072<![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073<![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48074<![CDATA[I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48075<![CDATA[I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Bravely! ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48066<![CDATA[I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48067<![CDATA[Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20220<![CDATA[Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he practis'd ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9870