Preaching Quotes - Page 2

Preaching is truth set on fire.

Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.

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

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Preaching is truth through personality.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

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

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

He preaches well that lives well

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

There is a meltdown of authority going on in the world and a corresponding increase of lawlessness. The earth itself is also going through travail to give birth to the messengers of power who are sent to prepare the way for the coming of the kingdom by preaching the gospel of the kingdom throughout the earth.

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

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

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

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

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

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

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.