Important Quote by John Gresham Machen

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense…

— Halford Luccock

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

— Radhanath Swami

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness…

— Sydney Smith

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as…

— John Piper

In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.

— John E. Hines

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

— Elbert Hubbard

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

— Alistair Begg

“Preaching should be viewed as one of the main tasks of the shepherd, not something that defines you.”

— Julius J. Kim