Preacher Quotes - Page 4

• The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Law, Preaching The Gospel

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• God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross.

  Donald Barnhouse

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

  Vance Havner

  Fire, Ought, Sermons

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• There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Voice, Pieces, Rehearsal

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.114

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, Doe, Treasure

  'Christmas Eve' (1850) l. 1311

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• So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
  Till my trophies at last I lay down;
  I will cling to the old rugged cross,
  And exchange it some day for a crown.

  George Bennard

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

  The Old Rugged Cross (1913 hymn)

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• When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Jesus, Forgiving

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• Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior.

  Max Lucado

  Love, Trust, God

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Sep 16, 2014

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• You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

  Max Lucado

  Forgiveness, God, Faith

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2014

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• Refuse to be average.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Average, Editors

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• Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ- centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Son, Men

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• May we all be in such a condition of soul, such an attitude of heart as will fit us for any little work in which our gracious Lord may be pleased to use us- not seeking a place for ourselves, but lovingly serving all. The Lord, in His great mercy, grant that thus it may be, with all His beloved people!

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Attitude, Heart

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• Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1112, Barbour Publishing

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• We don't get to decide who God is.

  Francis Chan

  God, Christian, Decision

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.20, David C Cook

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• Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

  Francis Chan

  God, Christian, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.22, David C Cook

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• The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Voice

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• No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beauty, God, Faith

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith.

  DeVon Franklin

  God, Faith, Religious

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• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  Vance Havner

  Devil, Preparing, Sermons

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• Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

  Hosea Ballou

  Life, Godly, Practice

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• As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Dog, Cat

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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