Preaching (n.) is double-tongued: it extols marriage when marriage is the theme, and at the bachelor's funeral calls it a matter of indifference; time is the season of grace — until a child dies and time becomes vanity.
Preaching (n.) that offers world-historical perspectives, systematic results, pounding the pulpit and wiping the sweat arouses at most a sensuous pity for the sweater; such an orator, talking of everything but himself, is Geert Westphaler, who never learned that he was a chatterbox.
Preaching (n.) that promises the good its reward and keeps silent about the world's hatred deceives the youth — he will either despair of himself or give up, as if something unusual had befallen him.
Preaching (n.) must, if necessary, preach against Christianity — since flattering sermons have tricked it into an illusion and us into thinking ourselves Christians.
Preaching (n.) is the most difficult of all arts — the Socratic art of conversing, where an individual talks as an individual to the individual.