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Quotes about Preaching

I just love preaching.
— Max Lucado
Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.
— Fred Craddock
If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.
— Fred Craddock
The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.
— Fred Craddock
Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.
— Fred Craddock
No one can increase the volume in the pulpit to such a level as to muffle the echo of lost convictions.
— Fred Craddock
Without the sharing of personal experience, prophetic preaching is impossible.
— Brennan Manning
Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community.
— Henri Nouwen
There is a wide difference between preaching doctrine and preaching Christ.
— Henry Blackaby
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. 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.
— Herman Melville
Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.
— Billy Graham
The last thing I thought I would be doing is traveling the country and traveling the world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, but God had a plan and nobody is more surprised than me. A lot of people who knew me before have been equally surprised over the years.
— Ted DiBiase Sr.