Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

-Austen,Jane
  Mansfield Park, ch.34.

The Spirit of the Lord G isuponme; becausethe Lhath anointed meto preach good tidings untothemeek; he hath sent me, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;To proclaim the acceptable yearofthe L, and the dayof vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for thespirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the L, that he might be glorified.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODORD ORDORDIsaiah 61:1^3.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this gracegiven, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Ephesians 3:8.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 4:2.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

-Ingres,Jean Auguste Dominique
  Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

-Whately, Richard
  Apophthegms.