Quotes About Preaching

#1. The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

John Adams

#2. I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it ...

50 Cent

#3. The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

Dwight L. Moody

#4. 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.

Gilbert Tennent

#5. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Francis Of Assisi

#6. The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.

David Jeremiah

#7. People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

Adam Hamilton

#8. After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

Preston Sturges

#9. Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.

John Bevere

#10. Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

Matthew Henry

#11. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

Jimmy Carter

#12. Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

Franklin Graham

#13. The gospel is so valuable that no risk is unreasonable. Life is gained by laying it down for the gospel. If I live, I win and get to keep on preaching Christ. If I die, I win bigger by going directly to be with Christ...

David Sitton

#14. And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

Frances Wright

#15. There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

J.C. Ryle

#16. To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.

Calvin Miller

#17. No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Phillips Brooks

#18. Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith - the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching for sure. If we remain passive, we surrender the field to him.

John Piper

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

Charles Grandison Finney

#20. It is still through the foolishness of preaching that God gives repentance and faith.

Michael S. Horton

#21. should only obey God when we feel like it; only that preaching Christianity primarily as a set of new behaviors will create people who act right without ever loving the right.1 This creates hypocrites, weary and resentful of God. What Is "Real" Spiritual Growth?

J.D. Greear

#22. So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Watts

#23. Sound preaching arises out of two loves - love of the Word of God and love of people - and from them both a desire to show people God's glorious grace.

Timothy Keller

#24. It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

John Wesley

#25. Bad law-preaching levels some of us; Osteen's omission of the law levels none of us; biblical preaching of the law levels all of us.

Michael S. Horton

#26. Preaching is truth set on fire.

Jack Hyles

#27. By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

George Orwell

#28. Don't use "below-the-belt" tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Don't put the other person down.

Harriet Lerner

#29. Nowhere in Mark 16:15 - "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" [KJV] - nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world.

Billy Graham

#30. I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Conor Oberst

#31. It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Shoghi Effendi

#33. The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

Eazy-E

#34. MAR1.14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, MAR1.15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Anonymous

#35. Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#36. As we tune our ears to the kind of preaching that makes the primary point of the sermon the primary point of a particular passage of Scripture, we grow accustomed to listening to God.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#37. In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

Albert Camus

#38. The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

Steven J. Lawson

#39. The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God, in such a way that divine redemption can be recognized as the best solution of our problems, individual and social

Carl F. H. Henry

#40. I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

Criss Jami

#41. One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

Rick Pitino

#42. All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: 'Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Robert Anton Wilson

#43. There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!

Monica Johnson

#44. There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

John G. Lake

#45. When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.

Sunday Adelaja

#46. Any other, was disgusted, and attended his preaching no more.

Benjamin Franklin

#47. 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.

John Newton

#48. Besides, it seems to mee that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.

Raymond E. Feist

#49. I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#50. If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Oswald Chambers

#51. Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

Colin S. Smith

#52. For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.

C.S. Lewis

#53. For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism

Jim Cymbala

#54. Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

John Piper

#55. It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it.
- Shaw's Preface

George Bernard Shaw

#56. It is safe to say that the majority of evangelical churches today are busy teaching their flock how to be better goats, but they are not preaching Bible-centered messages that grow religious affections.

Todd Friel

#57. When I see the need for Divine teaching and how hungry people are to hear it, I am atremble to be off and running throughout the world, preaching the word of God. I have no rest, my soul finds no other relief, than to rush about and preach.

Anthony Mary Claret

#58. What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.

Marina Abramovic

#59. An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When

James MacDonald

#60. Great preaching always depends upon great themes.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#61. Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era. In the area of "Christian activities" or "Christian service," how we are doing it is at least as important as what we are doing.

Francis Schaeffer

#62. Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#63. If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#64. Your task in preaching is not to get through your message. Your task is to get through to your audience.

Bill Curtis

#65. Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#66. don't try to minimize what god said

A.P.

#67. 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.

David Jeremiah

#68. Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

Antonya Nelson

#69. When we preach gospel of miracles instead of gospel of the kingdom, we are subverting gospel of the kingdom.

Sunday Adelaja

#70. We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

Charles Spurgeon

#71. The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.

Jim Cymbala

#72. Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

Thomas Sowell

#74. It is the preaching of God's commands that brings conviction, while the proclamation of Christ in the gospel creates and keeps on creating faith and its fruit.

Michael S. Horton

#75. There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.

Mother Teresa

#76. Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

Richard Baxter

#77. We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

Leonard Ravenhill

#78. No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

Steven J. Lawson

#79. Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

Charles Spurgeon

#80. Preaching the gospel to myself each day is the best way to remind myself that my life in Christ is the prevailing, permanent reality in my life.

Gloria Furman

#81. What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

#82. Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.

John Ortberg

#83. As the people came to a desert place to hear John the Baptist proclaim, "Thus saith the Lord," so [man] in his confusions, frustrations, and bewilderment will come to hear the minister who preaches with authority.

Billy Graham

#84. Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people - separated from the moral evils of the world.

Billy Graham

#85. We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

John Rucyahana

#86. 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?

William Gurnall

#87. Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult

Friedrich Nietzsche

#88. It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

George Henry Lewes

#89. I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

G.K. Chesterton

#90. The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?

Leonard Ravenhill

#91. With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#92. The preaching of the gospel is not to persuade people to agree with me in my theological views. The preaching of the gospel so far as I am concerned, is to bring people into personal association with that person with whom I have fellowship.

William Warren Prescott

#93. One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#94. When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.

Billy Porter

#95. 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.

J.C. Ryle

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

Walter E. Williams

#97. When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

John Ortberg

#98. 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

#99. Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

J. Edwin Orr

#100. Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

J.I. Packer