Expository Quotes

#1. I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

Tommy Davidson

#2. The key to preaching, then, is to make the message of the text obvious. Help people to see it and feel it. Help people to understand the text. Paul is talking about what I would call 'expository preaching', in which the message of the text is the message of the sermon.

J. Gary Millar

#3. What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

Richard Russo

#4. Can you faint from awesome boy scent?

Nikki Godwin

#5. Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

R.C. Sproul

#6. I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

David Foster Wallace

#7. Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

George Steiner

#8. Expository preaching means you can't completely predetermine what your people will be hearing over the next few weeks or months. As the texts are opened, questions and answers emerge that no one might have seen coming.

Timothy Keller

#9. I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

George Gershwin

#10. But Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks - most

Jude Deveraux

#11. Expository preaching is the best method for displaying and conveying your conviction that the whole Bible is true.

Timothy Keller

#12. In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

Kiese Laymon

#13. The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

Leland Ryken

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

Alistair Begg

#15. After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

W. A. Criswell

#16. Expository preaching consists in the explanation and application of a passage of Scripture. Without explanation it is not expository; without application it is not preaching.32

Steven J. Lawson

#17. Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Shields

#18. The apple was meant to take away the bitter taste, perhaps," he said.
"I imagine that Mr. Turing wasn't exactly looking for a taste experience," said Corell.
"Man always tries to limit his suffering.

David Lagercrantz

#19. Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

Derek Bok

#20. A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals.

Morris Kline