Quotes About Preaching

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

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.

There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.

About 1369 Wickliffe began to preach the faith in England, and his preaching and writings were the means of the conversion of great numbers, many of whom became excellent preachers; and a work was begun which afterwards spread in England, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, Switzerland, and many other places. John Huss and Jerom of Prague, preached boldly and successfully in Bohemia, and the adjacent parts.

About the year 1743, Mr. David Brainerd was sent a missionary to some more Indians, where he preached, and prayed, and after some time an extraordinary work of conversion was wrought, and wonderful success attended his ministry.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

What is Jordan that I should wash in it What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace

King James said of a minister in his time, he preached as if death was at his back.

What have we Bibles for, ministers and preaching for, if we mean not to furnish ourselves by them with armour for the evil day?

The gospel preached is the instrument which God useth for the effecting of it. 'I am not ashamed,' saith the apostle, 'of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation,' Rom. 1:16. It is the chariot wherein the Spirit rides victoriously when he makes his entrance into the hearts of man—called therefore 'the ministration of the Spirit,' II Cor. 3:8.

The great subject and theme of his thoughts in what he is, and what he hath above others, applauding himself; as Bernard confesseth, that—when one would think he had little leisure for such thoughts—even in preaching; pride would be whispering in his ear, Bene fecisti Bernarde—O well done, Bernard. Now have a care, Christian, of chat ting with such company. Run from such thoughts as from a bear.

What is said of some commentators, 'The places on which they treat were plain till they expounded them,' may be said of some preachers, their text was clear till their obscure dis course upon it darkened it.

Why the hell's he preachin' if he don't preach to people that need it?

Too much "evangelistic preaching".... comes out as "a God without wrath bringing men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross - The Evangelism Mandate, David Larsen pg. 35

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.