Curtis Mayfield Quotes

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

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

I write all my sermons.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

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

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

I've been known to preach.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

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

My dad was a Methodist minister.

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.

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.

My parents are ministers.

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

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

Before I was a journalist, I was a preacher in Georgia and Kentucky.

The really funny thing is that most all of my friends who are priests have seen me perform, and they say, 'I wish I could talk the way you do on stage. I wish I could reveal truth to my congregation the way you do.'

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

My job is to preach and preach and preach.