We've had President Clinton preach rolling up our sleeves and getting to work on retrofits.

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St Thomas turned up to preach the gospel, while Chinese pilgrims, following the route that I had taken over the Khunjerab Pass, came looking for Buddhist scriptures.

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We see the emergence of an almost-religious sect in Embassytown rise up to preach against the lies, to warn against evil, led by the simile Valdik.

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Much later the Graham family remembered that another preacher had prayed that out of Charlotte the Lord would raise up somebody to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, and that is exactly what Billy Frank Graham has been doing for the past 63 years.

ECONOMIST: American evangelism

Give up those adolescent, slovenly ways, we preach.

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They also preach patience to Afghans, saying that building their country from the ground up takes time.

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The barriers to entry are low almost anyone can set up a church but the pressure to perform is relentless: if you can't preach a mesmerising service, people will go elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: Pentecostals