Break Quote by John Calvin

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

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

— John Stott

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

“Success in the pulpit can be the force that leads a preacher from prayerful dependence on the Spirit.”

— Bryan Chapell

If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

— Charles Spurgeon

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

— R. C. Sproul

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able…

— Martin Luther

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

— Vance Havner

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a…

— William Feather

“Preachers are heralds, who in representing their King proclaim a message with such clarity and integrity that those who hear will hopefully be transformed…

— Julius J. Kim

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

— George Whitefield