Definition of Preach at BrainyQuote

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.

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

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

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

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

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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