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Definition of Preach

Preach

To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.

To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.

To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.

To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.

To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.

To advise or recommend earnestly.

A religious discourse.

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Preach Quotations

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Joel Osteen

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

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Francis of Assisi

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Francis of Assisi

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'Connor

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.
William Feather

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.
Thom Yorke

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
Roald Dahl

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.
Kenneth H. Cooper

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
George Whitefield

Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Ben Elton

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
Al Sharpton

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

Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
Orson Pratt

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West

The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.
Howard Dean

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Preach Translations

preach in Dutch is prediken, preken
preach in German is predigen
preach in Spanish is predicar
preach in Swedish is predika

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