Quotes about Preaching
The preaching of the cross is an announcement of a living reality that continues to transform human existence and human destiny more than two thousand years after it originally occurred.
— Fleming Rutledge
Thus, in Colossians 1:5-6, the Word is described not as the content of the apostles' preaching and mission, but as the active agent, the subject of the verbs: "the word of the truth, the gospel which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing.
— Fleming Rutledge
The New Testament is from beginning to end a living witness to the apostolic preaching. The cross was meant to be preached.
— Fleming Rutledge
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
— William Booth
For a Christianity preached by royal functionaries who are paid and made secure by the State and employ the police against other people, such a Christianity has the same relation to the Christianity of the New Testament as swimming with a cork float or with a bladder has to swimming, that is to say, it is play.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
— JC Ryle
As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.
— John Newton
We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.
— St. Basil
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
— Joel Osteen
The New England divine Cotton Mather puts it this way: "Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all. Let others develop the pulpit fads that come and go. Let us specialize in preaching our Lord Jesus Christ.
— Joel Beeke
First, the Puritans showed a profound dependence upon the Holy Spirit in everything they said and did. They felt keenly their inability to bring anyone to Christ as well as the magnitude of conversion.
— Joel Beeke
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson