Preaching Quotes - Page 4

• Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

  Andy Stanley

  Morning, Sunday, Simple

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• The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

  William Cowper

  Reading, Hem, Fifteen

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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• No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Twenties, Firsts

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• There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

  William Cowper

  Clerks, Sparks, Scarce

  William Cowper, John Smythe MEMES (1861). “The Letters of William Cowper. Edited by Rev. J. S. Memes. [With a Portrait.]”, p.82

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• Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Groups, Counseling, Bases

  "Preaching as Counseling : The Unique Method of Harry Emerson Fosdick". Book by Edmund Holt Linn, 1966.

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• Do as we say, and not as we do.
  [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons.]

  Giovanni Boccaccio

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• There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

  Mother Teresa

  Should, Calcutta, Meetings

  1975 A Gift for God,'Carriers of Christ's Love'.

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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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• The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Style, Germany, Pulpit

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• Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

  Dillon Burroughs

  God, Christian, Religious

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• In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, People, Would Be

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...”

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• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Church Service, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Forever, Priests

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• I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

  Martin Luther

  Long, Preacher, Torment

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.238

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• That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

  J. C. Ryle

  Mercy Of God, Joy, Heaven

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Beginning Middle And End, Execution

  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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• I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Faith, Religious, Jesus

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• If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Book, Stuff, Three

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• We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

  Vance Havner

  People, Grace, Christ

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

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• To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

  John Selden

  Love, Running, Men

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.48

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• Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

  Andy Stanley

  Life Changing, Communication, Inspiration

  Andy Stanley, Lane Jones (2008). “Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication”, p.96, Multnomah

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• Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Names

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• Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

  Alistair Begg

  Healthy, Church, Staples

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• All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If 'Christ crucified' has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do - your preaching is of no use!

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Believe, Simple

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.33, Whitaker House

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• The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Change, Christian, Unique

  Helmut Thielicke (1970). “How modern should theology be?”

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