Max Lucado Quotes

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I've been known to preach.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Demagoguery from the pulpit is no different from demagoguery on the campaign trail. If anything, it is worse, because it clothes itself in self-righteousness.

Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

My parents are ministers.

I stay in church, listening to the Word.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

I am very confident in preaching.

I just love preaching.