Great Preaching Quotes

#1. He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Thomas Carlyle

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

G. Campbell Morgan

#3. Great preaching always depends upon great themes.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#4. 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!

Bill Peterson

#5. [Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.

James A. Michener

#6. 29 And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word. 30 Stretch out your hand with healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.

Anonymous

#7. This is a day in which one of our great perils is that of doing a thousand little things to the neglect of the one thing, which is preaching.6

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#8. Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

Mark Zupan

#9. The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.

John Rogers

#10. One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

Charles R. Swindoll

#11. The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which "God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

Thomas Merton

#12. May God give us much more grace eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I'm not a great preacher, and I don't claim to be a great preacher ... I'm an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.

Billy Graham

#14. Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

Trevor Noah

#15. A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

Douglas Wilson

#16. When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"

James Hetfield

#17. The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing.

Freddie Highmore

#20. Ministers should be very wary that they do not bring forth fuel to feed the fears and doubts of weak Christians in their preaching and writing, for it is a great part of their work to arm weak Christians against their fears and weaknesses.

Don Kistler

#21. Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#22. Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

David Lloyd-Jones

#23. The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

William Ralph Inge

#24. The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Charles Spurgeon

#25. The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And ev'n the rigid feature:
Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
For deity offended.

Robert Burns

#26. Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior.

Charles Grandison Finney