Preaching Quotes - Page 16

• He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Littles, Virtue, Abstract

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.7

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• The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Answers, Enough

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3608, Delphi Classics

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• This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Mean, Treasure

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• By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

  George Orwell

  Hatred, Leader, Doctrine

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

  Raymond Aron

  Party, Practice, Names

  Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Soul, Christ

  Martin Luther “The Freedom of a Christian”, Lulu.com

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• The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.

  Andrew Greeley

  Creativity, Creative, Elements

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• The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and bread, beer and a bed.

  William Cobbett

  Christian, Beer, Fire

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• Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

  Oscar Romero

  Overcoming, World, Tire

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• Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Winning, Fire

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• Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

  Alexander Whyte

  Preacher

  Alexander Whyte (2011). “Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition”, p.417, Primedia E-launch LLC

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• Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

  Charles Spurgeon

  Woe, Fit, Christianity

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era. In the area of "Christian activities" or "Christian service," how we are doing it is at least as important as what we are doing.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.64, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.

  John Bevere

  Strong, Healing, Gifts Of The Spirit

  John Bevere (2014). “The Bait of Satan, 20th Anniversary Edition: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.60, Charisma Media

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• Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Suicide, Mind, Passionate

  Ford Madox Ford (2016). “The Good Soldier: Ford's works”, p.190, VM eBooks

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people - the new covenant, blood-bought people of God. That's why Paul said, 'Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her' (Eph. 5:25). He didn't give himself up for a place, but for a people.

  Mark Dever

  Spiritual, Blood, People

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• Instead of preaching the good news that sinners can be made righteous in Christ and escape the wrath to come, the gospel has degenerated into the pretext that we can be happy in Christ and escape the hassles of life.

  Ray Comfort

  Wrath, News, Christ

  Ray Comfort (2004). “Revival's Golden Key”, Bridge-Logos

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• A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true church of Jesus Christ. A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good, so that they are secured in their sinful state, betrays the gospel's call.

  Oscar Romero

  Jesus, Support, Feel Good

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• Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ...
  - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated,
  - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sound, Adults

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  Eazy-E

  Kids, Reality, Care

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• When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

  Mark Twain

  Country, Party, Teaching

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

  Joel Beeke

  Christian, Frustration, Preaching The Gospel

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• If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, People, Messages

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015

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