Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Preaching
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All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
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The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
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