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Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“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

Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“Good preachers...are effective teachers, good thinkers, with rhetorical skills, a good voice, a good memory, and the ability to recognize when to stop. They…

— Robert Kolb

Do I recognize that I've been labeled as a prosperity preacher? I recognize that.

— Paula White

“The preacher must be surrendered to God in the holiest devotion. He is not a professional man, his ministry is not a profession; it…

— E. M. Bounds

“Everything teaches, everyone preaches, all have a gospel to sell! Better the one who is honest and open in declaring an agenda than the…

— Karen Lord

“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It is more…

— Jane Austen

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the…

— Anonymous

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

All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as an accurate…

— James MacDonald

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