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Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.