Addresses Quote by William Cowper

A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

Greatest preacher would be the one, that can make things of faith, understandable to unbelieving person.

— Michael Sams

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

“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

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

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

— Timothy Radcliffe

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross.…

— Sam Childers

A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

— John Newton

“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 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

Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it…

— J. C. Ryle