Children Quote by E.M. Bounds

“A wise man will cultivate a servant’s spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other. As I humbly serve others, their wisdom…

— Andy Andrews

I do not think of changing the people through my sermons. It is through preparing my sermons that God changes me. The sermons, at…

— Albert Kang

“But often the preaching is just motivational speaking, waterless clouds blown by the wind that offer inspiration without information (Jude 12). Sermons aren’t built…

— Grant Retief

The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

— Billy Graham

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and…

— John Selden

Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge…

— George Herbert

Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or…

— Theodore Austin-Sparks

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not…

— Mojo Nixon

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The…

— Jane Austen

After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the…

— Preston Sturges

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

— Charles Henry Fowler

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than…

— John Calvin

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he…

— Abraham Lincoln

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

— Edith Hamilton