Preaching Quotes - Page 3

• It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Force

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.153, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

  Jackie Pullinger

  Missionary, News, Hearing

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• The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

  David O. McKay

  Mean, Preaching The Gospel, Missionary

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• Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

  John E. Hines

  Long, Preacher, Happens

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• Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.

  John Selden

  Men, Roots, Tree

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• I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

  Mojo Nixon

  Religious, Hate, Army

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• All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Spring, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Talent, Endeavor

  Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1812). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.”, p.326

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• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Practice, Interesting

  Speech by H.E. Vicki Treadell, British High Commissioner to Malaysia, at 16th Gandhi Memorial Lecture, www.gov.uk. October 13, 2016.

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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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• The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

  Lester Roloff

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• If people are not sharing their faith in your church, if they're not having a quiet time, if they're not living godly lives, then you need to change your style of preaching. You are obviously not seeing lives changed through the Word of God. So what is the problem? The problem isn't the Word. The problem is your preaching style.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Life Changing, Godly, People

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• If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.

  Billy Sunday

  Long Ago, Done, World

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• The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Book, Men

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.532, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

  Phillips Brooks

  Scripture, Argument, Conviction

  Phillips Brooks (1964). “On Preaching”

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• Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
  If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
  God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
  To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
  The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
  God takes a text, and preaches patience.

  George Herbert

  Judging, Treasure, Want

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Expression, Moral

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• Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Religion, Sometimes, Christianity

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• Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Long, People

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• He preaches well that lives well

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Preacher, Wells

  MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.188

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• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

  J. I. Packer

  Complaining, Today, Ministers

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• In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, Lying, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.44

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• The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

  George Dana Boardman Pepper

  Death, Evil, Dying

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• No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  John Flavel

  Religious, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

  John Flavel (2014). “Fountain of Life: 1671”

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• The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Reading, Dwelling

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