Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes About Preaching

Quotes about: Preaching

• Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Earth

• Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Mold, Saint

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

• Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Evil, Benefits

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

• Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Years, Twenties

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

• The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Character, Light, Praying

• Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Giving, Preaching

  Edward McKendree Bounds (2015). “Power Through Prayer”, p.11, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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