Fred B. Craddock Quotes

#1. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.

Fred B. Craddock

#2. The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

Fred B. Craddock

#3. The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.

Fred B. Craddock

#4. don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.

Fred B. Craddock

#5. Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

Fred B. Craddock

#6. Learning to preach is difficult because preaching is difficult.

Fred B. Craddock

#7. I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

Fred B. Craddock

#8. Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.

Fred B. Craddock