Chiefs Quote by Martin Luther

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

— Michel de Montaigne

“A good sermon is one side of a passionate conversation. It has to be heard in that way. There are three parties to it,…

— Marilynne Robinson

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able…

— Curtis Mayfield

“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

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its…

— Alistair Begg

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we…

— Vance Havner

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to…

— Phillips Brooks

“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

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

— Anonymous