The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Martin Luther
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  1. If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. - Edmund Burke
  3. As a career the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell. - Elbert Hubbard
  4. The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. - Samuel Johnson
  5. The defects of a preacher are soon spied. - Martin Luther
More Quotes By Martin Luther
  1. We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
  2. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
  3. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
  4. Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the...
  5. Be a sinner and sin boldly,  but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
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