Preaching Quotes

Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

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

It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

Regular expository preaching of the Bible is the staple diet of a healthy church.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity

The lilies say: Behold how we Preach without words of purity.

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.

Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

Preach the gospel to yourself every day.

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

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

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

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.

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

Preaching is truth set on fire.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.

We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

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

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Preaching is truth through personality.

One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.