Definition of Preach

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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.

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Preach Quotations

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Joel Osteen

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
Joel Osteen

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

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin Luther

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

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

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Preach Translations

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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