Quotes about Preaching

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsÇ" spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.

As I often point out to folks, today we are not only saved by grace, we are paralyzed by it. We will preach to you for an hour that you can do nothing to be saved, and then sing to you for forty-five minutes trying to get you to do something to be saved. That is confusing, to say the least.

"Brothers, our toil and hardship, we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you."

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. —F. B. MEYER