Clever Quote by J. C. Ryle

“Myriads of professing Christians nowadays seem utterly unable to distinguish things that differ. Like people afflicted with colour-blindness, they are incapable of discerning what…

— J.C. Ryle

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

— Honore de Balzac

I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He…

— Charles Spurgeon

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they…

— Paul Washer

“The Bible-oriented preacher wants the congregation to know that his words, if they have any abiding worth, are in accord with God’s words. He…

— John Piper

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

— George Bernard Shaw

Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn,…

— William Cowper

A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“If preachers would speak only to men's fancies or understandings, and not meddle too smartly with their hearts, and lives, and carnal interests, the…

— George Virtue

“I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. The eye's…

— Edgar Guest

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

— G. Campbell Morgan

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

— Martin Luther