In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.