Preaching Quotes · Page 9

“They tell me that I rub the fur the wrong way. I don't; let the cat turn around.”

— Billy Sunday

“A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.”

— E.M. Bounds

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

— Andy Stanley

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

— Timothy Keller

“Such preaching puts people in immediate contact with the power of the Word. E”

— Bryan Chapell

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my…

— Frederick Buechner

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

— Nathanael Emmons

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

— Dwight L. Moody

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and…

— Martin Luther

“But what if differences are made by remembering where we’d be without God and then ministering to others out of that knowledge?…

— Zack Eswine

The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness…

— Jim Cymbala

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart…

— James K. Baxter

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of…

— Francois Fenelon

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about…

— Eazy-E

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“The substitution of so-called "practical" preaching for the doctrinal exposition which it has supplanted is the root cause of many of the…

— Arthur W. Pink

We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different…

— Patricia Mauceri

The Lord's Supper has been greatly instrumental in keeping His cause alive. It is the voice of all believers preaching the Lord's…

— Charles Deems

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their…

— Richard Baxter

All preaching should be as creative as we can make it. We've been entrusted with such a treasure. To have anywhere from…

— Max Lucado

And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the…

— Francis of Assisi

“The key to preaching, then, is to make the message of the text obvious. Help people to see it and feel it.…

— Gary Millar

“Preaching has very largely become a profession. Instead of real Christian sermons we are given secondhand expositions of psychology. The preachers say…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Good News of the gospel of salvation must be declared to all nations.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.”

— Todd Stocker

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you…

— Samuel Johnson

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

— Billy Graham

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

— Gigi Hadid

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

— Albert Camus

The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

— G. Campbell Morgan

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

— Brandon Marshall

“One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching.”

— Anonymous

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

— Charles Spurgeon

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

— Alexa Chung

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

— John Newton

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

— Frederick Buechner

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

— Anonymous