Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
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.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.