Quotes about Preaching

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

Remember that to these worlds and these beings and these ages we are to be the messengers of the grace and wisdom and glory of God. In that view the future loses its sense of dread, and one looks on to the new opportunities for art, and music, and poetry, and above all perchance of preaching, that are coming to the ransomed ones when the discipline of time is merged into the fitness of eternity, with reverent and holy desire.

If we can't take Christ to them by preaching, we'll take Christ to them by living.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.