Quotes About Preaching The Word Of God

#1. There are two ways of opening the eyes of people. The first is by way of preaching the Word of God and the second is prayer

Sunday Adelaja

#2. 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

#3. What, then, is good preaching? Let me pull all these ideas together into a single description. It is "proclaim[ing]. . . . the testimony of God" (1 Corinthians 2:1) - preaching biblically, engaging with the authoritative text. This means preaching the Word and not your opinion.

Timothy Keller

#4. The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ.

William Tyndale

#5. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.

William E. Gladstone

#6. With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

Eason Jordan

#7. When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.

Billy Graham

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

William Gurnall

#9. The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#10. The enemy of the human race ... invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

Pope John Paul II

#11. If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God's Word into our sermons.8 His gospel preaching was grounded

Steven J. Lawson

#12. Every living word that gives life was once without form.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#13. The Good News of the gospel of salvation must be declared to all nations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under the rule of law. Instead, they live under the rule of men corrupted by the law.

Dale Carpenter

#15. It is important for us to realize that it is not only the message of the Word but the method of preaching that God has promised to use for salvation and growth. It must, therefore, be central in worship.

Michael S. Horton

#16. I've seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline.

Donald S. Whitney

#17. These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word ... Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

John Piper

#19. Bun. Sir, said I, Wickliffe saith, that he which leaveth off preaching and hearing of the Word of God for fear of excommunication of men, he is already excommunicated of God, and shall in the day of judgment be counted a traitor to Christ.

John Bunyan

#20. A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

John Barrymore

#21. It is possible to have the administration of the sacraments and the preaching of the Word of God and to have it be simply a human exercise.

Dallas Willard

#22. I didn't want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I've been acting the past year, year and a half ... although what's happened in the past has happened, I just want to ... be kind and loving and gentle and soft.

Justin Bieber

#23. Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity ... Preach with urgency ... heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision.

Billy Graham

#24. Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.

Thomas Goodwin

#25. The lord is the peasant that was,
The peasant is the lord that shall be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.

Billy Sunday

#27. My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Matt Chandler

#28. Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family.

Michael N. Castle

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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