Anita Diament Quotes

I've been known to preach.

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.

I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

I'm a Jehovah's Witness.

A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

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

I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.

I don't ever preach to people.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.