Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.