Preaching Quotes

• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1966). “Sermons on the Gospel of John”

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• The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Servant Of God, Religion

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• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Spiritual, Giving

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• All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religion, Dull, Originality

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• One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Voice, People, Challenges

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• We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Play, Eternity

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• The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

  John Owen

  Firsts, Flocks, Duty

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.74

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• You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Preparation, Spirit, Holy

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never come upon you. Why should he? Has he not come on purpose that he may testify of Christ? Did not Jesus say, ‘He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you’? Yes, the subject was Christ, and nothing but Christ, and such is the teaching which the Spirit of God will own. Be it ours never to wander from this central point: may we determine to know nothing among men but Christ and his cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

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• Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Passion, Fire, Pathos

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “The Two Wesleys: On John and Charles Wesley”, p.64, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Responsibility

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• The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Devil, Sound, Hell

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.165, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

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• The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

  Martyn

  Calling, Glorious, Highest

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• To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

  W. A. Criswell

  Love, Life, God

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• No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  John Flavel

  Religious, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

  John Flavel (2014). “Fountain of Life: 1671”

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• Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever say, 'My house shall be called a house of music'? Of course not. The Bible does say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'. Preaching, music, the reading of the Word - these things are fine; I believe in and practice all of them. But they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling. the honest truth is that I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Real, Believe

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• If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Lasts

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• The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Passion, Essentials, Three

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• It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

  Francis of Assisi

  Leadership, Faith, Spiritual

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• The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

  Lester Roloff

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

  Hosea Ballou

  Life, Godly, Practice

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