Lift Quote by Robert H. Schuller

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

— Lord David Cecil

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore…

— Vance Havner

“Good preachers work hard with the text. They want to make the sermon as accurate as possible. They also want to make it as…

— R.C. Sproul

“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

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

— Adam Hamilton

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

— Bryan Chapell

You don't want to just preach to people; you want to get them emotionally involved, and I think you do that with a wonderful…

— Naomie Harris

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

— Michael Eric Dyson

The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a…

— William Barclay

On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as…

— Wyclef Jean