Citations:preacherize

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English citations of preacherize

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  • 1911, John Granville Woolley, Civic Sermons, volume 6, page 127:
    We are trying to preacherize the world, instead of Christianize it. That fails, ought to fail, will always fail.
  • 1921, Teaching, volumes 3-4, page 7:
    Positive moral instruction, not of the preacherizing type (although a certain amount of this is good), should be a prominent part of each day's work.
  • 2015, Raymond Broad, The Lost Will and Testament of Jesus Christ, page 142:
    Preacherizing and sermonizing, as we have developed it, has become an endless litany of moralizing, exhortation, and instruction on endless rules of how to live, coupled with minute searches of scripture for tiny tidbits []
  • 2021 July 21, Rachel McClellan, Poetically Speaking Down Through the Years, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
    You have preacherized, sermonized, evangelized, / How through Christ, old lives become new, / So for the work's sake, for the Lord's sake, for our sake, We wish a blessed / Happy Anniversary to you / Written in love and appreciation